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 A Clever Air |
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One of the most in-demand bassists on the Smalls scene for the last decade has been the New York-bred Neal Miner. Miner, along with like-minded associates known elsewhere on this label, also plumbed the New York scene as a teenager and quickly developed into one of the steadiest sidemen on the scene. For ten years, he's been the exclusive accompanist to jazz legends Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. He's actually been a choice of most of today's vocal stars. It's easy to see why they like him. He's sought out the elder masters on the NY scene and absorbed their lessons. His warm, full tone and keen timing lend a solid foundation to any jazz ensemble. The appealing and refined original repertoire presented here now gives us the portrait of a complete artist.
Aside from considering Neal's estimable talents as a musician, we owe Neal a debt of gratitude for bringing many of New York's greatest older musicians into Smalls, such as Bubba Brooks, Herman Foster, Dick Katz, and Eddie Locke, and for working hard to expose us to new composers and new ideas through his "Jazz Composer's Forum" features on Sunday nights, which featured artists such as Larry Goldings, Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Mark Turner, Omer Avital, Joel Frahm, Bill McHenry, Sam Yahel, Dwayne Burno, Ben Wolfe, Ned Goold, Jason Lindner, and Avishai Cohen among others. This work helped to establish a distinct identity for Smalls, and sparked a number of new musical endeavors.
Neal Miner's musical contributions to Smalls are well represented in this disk. The compositions presented here have been performed at Smalls many times and in many different group settings. The musicians convened for this recording knew the tunes and each other well. All present, with the exception of Steve Ash and Tom Melito, are members of the Chris Byars Octet, in whose book these tunes have also found an eight-part home (documented on Night Owls / Smalls SRCD-13). Mosca and Vitale are both veterans of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Orchestra. Byars and Mosca are both longtime front line mates from Across 7 Street, and their creative work together over the last decade qualifies them as among the smartest horn pairings in the history of the music (witness, for example, Made In New York / Smalls SRCD-2). This session has an extraordinary warmth and ease about it. By the time I got through John Mosca's solo on the opening track ("A Clever Air"), I was hooked on it. Breezy brilliance. |
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ARTISTS
Chris Byars (tenor sax)
Neal Miner (bass)
John Mosca (trombone)
Richie Vitale (trumpet)
Tom Melito (drums)
Steve Ash (drums) |
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