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| Artist: 3 Cohens |
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| Label: Anzic |
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| Price: $11.95 |
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| Year: 2011 |
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This album swings like the best `50s big band of Basie et al, yet there are only 6 pieces. This thing feels so tight, so enmeshed as the instruments bob and weave, and play off, around, with each other it really is a great bop kind of beauty you don't hear enough of today.
As the title suggest, it is a family band but in the best sense of the old saw "bigger than the sum of the parts" 3Cohens is more than a sum of their parts. The Israel born Cohen siblings individually are amongst the cream on their instruments while playing all over the world in other bands.
Avishai Cohen is one of the great trumpeters on the NY Jazz scene, able to play bebop, swing and ballads with equal expertise and reach those way-out sounds that only a trumpet can. Anat is without a doubt one of the premiere clarinet players in jazz, in any genre. And Yuval Cohen plays a sweet, full, relaxed tenor sax that is the envy of many a player.
Filling out the band is a rhythm section that, though not named Cohen , feel like cousins that grew up with them musically. The great pianist and composer, Aaron Goldberg is the go to guy for Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Betty Carter, Nicholas Payton, Al Foster, Stefon Harris, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Madeleine Peyroux and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra among others. Yeah, he knows a thing or two about getting around the piano without GPS.
On bass is New Zealander & Berklee grad Matt Penman. Penman is "the keeper of the groove" no matter where he plays and with the Cohen's it is a powerful groove he brings. Penman is a member of SFJazz Collective, an 8-piece composer's collective devoted to presenting the original works of its members as well as arrangements of the jazz greats' oeuvre.He , also plays with Redman, and with Aaron Parks and Eric Harland in a trio called James Farm.
And keeping the beat (and so much more) is Gregory Hutchinson whose resume looks like a who's who of music heaven. He has played with Dianne Reeves, Christian McBride, Ray Brown ad infinitum. Hutch is also a drum instructor with an instruction video due out soon.
And, like a mindful uncle, on vocals on two superb tracks we have very special guest Jon Hendricks. Now the tunes, ahh the tunes. "Shufla Deshufla" is a great shuffle tune. It's old school, and shows off the horns. This one sets the scene, and opens this great album. I love the old school, bop feel to it and it reminds me of some of the great "Jazz Messengers" albums from the `50s.
There is not a weak tune on the album, they are all standouts from "The Mooch" to "Rhapsody In Blake" what you have here is a virtuosity and creativity rarely found in "family bands" but it's joyfully in abundance here. "Blues for Dandi's Orange Bull Chasing an Orange Sack", is one of my personal favorites that opens with some fine piano work by Goldberg before picking up the pace to turn into a showcase tune.The tune has some grain of the Mingus-Richmond tradition, also the title, as well as the orange theme." The `licorice stick' of Anat will make you realize the claims above were not idle chatter.
With The Soul of The Greatest of Them All is another personal favorite and not just because the bass opens it up in a quite way and lays out that groove. It's very "Mingusy" the middle section goes to a ballad feel and grows back to the swing feel, and the harmony that leads back to the vamp at the end, very typical for Mingus.
I can't get away without mentioning one of the two vocals covered here. The great Vocalize" scat singing of Jon Hendricks on "Roll `em Pete" Hendricks has covered this tune numerous times, from his days with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, to countless other renditions but perhaps this will top them all. he also covers "On The Sunny Side OF The Street".
This is a great, fun, and swing CD and these guys feel like they are having fun. |
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ARTISTS
Anat Cohen (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Avishai Cohen (trumpet); Yuval Cohen (soprano saxophone); Aaron Goldberg (piano); Matt Penman (bass); Gregory Hutchinson (drums); Jon Hendricks (vocals) |
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