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Two days, two gigs, two trios. Last night a young band on a voyage of discovery. This lunchtime a trio of seasoned campaigners on the same journey but someway further along the line. Both did what they do do well so to make comparisions would be pointless.
Once again the Lit and Phil was sold out and justifiably so. Baranek doesn't make too many trips across the Pennines so that when he does it's a gig not to be missed.
The emphasis was on highlighting compositions by some of jazz's greatest piano masters with a particular leaning towards bebop and its offspring kicking off with Tadd Dameron's Our Delight which couldn't have been more appropriately named judging by the audience reaction - they liked it! Lullaby of Birdland is always a crowd pleaser and today was no exception. I particularly liked the fact that, rather than clone Shearing, Baranek was very much his own man.
A couple of Ellington tunes entwined: The Single Petal of a Rose and Sophisticated Lady. For the most part it was solo piano displaying the pianist's (both Duke and Andrzej) romantic side. Bass and drums entered to lift it to a higher, but not better, level.
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Oscar Moore composed Beautiful Moons Ago for the yet to be crowned Nat Cole. Cole, himself a great pianist set down a high bar for Baranek but his musical Fosbury Flop cleared it by a quaver or two with the help of the bossa nova rhythm.
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