Benny Green & Russell Malone: Live At The Bistro
Live At The Bistro
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- Label: Telarc, 2003
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.1.2003
Wen er denn als seinen legitimen Nachfolger ansehe, wurde Oscar Peterson einmal gefragt. Die Antwort kam prompt: Benny Green. Der 1963 in New York geborene Musiker spielte schon als Teenager mit Joe Henderson und Woody Shaw, später mit Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard und natürlich dem Trio von Ray Brown. Mit letzterem spielte auch der Gitarrist Russell Malone, der sich zuvor in den Bands von Jimmy Smith oder Harry Connick Jr. einen ausgezeichneten Ruf erspielt hatte. Jetzt haben sich die zwei Ausnahmemusiker zum Duett zusammen getan. Russell Malone: „Für einen Gitarristen ist es wohl eine der größten Herausforderungen, mit einem Pianisten im Duo zu spielen. Du musst wirklich ganz genau auf deinen Partner hören und ihm vertrauen können. Wenn zwei Musiker sich blind vertrauen, dann müssen sie nichts in Szene setzen, es passiert ganz einfach. So wie bei Benny und mir.“ Hört man den Konzertmitschnitt Jazz At The Bistro, so ist dem wenig hinzuzufügen. Aufgenommen im Sommer 2002 in St. Louis, haben Benny Green und Russell Malone zwar nicht die so genannte Kunst des Duos neu erfunden, auf eine neue Spitze der Perfektion treiben sie die aber wohl. Quer durch alle Stile - von Swing, Bebop und modernen Jazz bis zu gelungen Adaptionen von Rockhits wie dem Bee-Gees-Song How Deep Is Your Love? - servieren sie anspruchsvolle Improvisationen und traumhaft sicheres Teamwork.
"As a guitarist, perhaps one of the most challenging musical contexts is playing duo with a pianist...You really have to listen to each other, and trust each other. When musicians trust each other, they don't have to ‘make’ anything happen. It happens naturally." —Russell Malone, from the liner notes
Telarc will release Jazz at the Bistro with pianist Benny Green and guitarist Russell Malone, a recording dedicated to the memory of the late jazz bassist Ray Brown.
Jazz at the Bistro’s fifteen tracks (recorded live over a four-night stand at the St. Louis club) include Thelonius Monk’s “Ask Me Now,” Benny Carter’s “When Lights Are Low,” Cannonball Adderley’s “Wabash,” Billy Strayhorn’s “The Intimacy of the Blues” and John Coltrane’s “Moment’s Notice”/“Lazy Bird.” In the hands of these two young jazz lions, these classic tunes sound fresher than ever. Produced by Elaine Martone, Jazz at the Bistro also spotlights a pair of original compositions (Green’s “Quiet Girl” and Malone’s “Hand-Told Stories”).
Born in New York in 1963 and raised in Berkeley, California, Benny Green began studying classical piano at age seven and was introduced to jazz by his father. After moving back to New York in 1982, he gigged with Betty Carter, then Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. After extensive touring with Freddie Hubbard, he joined Ray Brown’s trio in 1992 and his reputation quickly spread. In 1993, Oscar Peterson chose Green as the first recipient of the city of Toronto’s Glenn Gould International Protege Prize. Green later teamed up with Peterson on Telarc’s Oscar and Benny, released in 1998.
Green’s Telarc debut, Naturally (CD-83498), featured Malone and bassist Christian McBride, and was recorded just days after an acclaimed performance at the 2000 IAJE Conference in New Orleans. Green’s Blues (CD-83539), released in 2001, was an exciting solo collection of jazz standards by Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner and George Gershwin, among others.
Russell Malone started playing music when he was five. A sophisticated and versatile guitarist, his influences range from swing to R&B. Malone first made his mark with Jimmy Smith’s band in the late 1980s. Over the past decade, he has maintained a successful dual career as a solo artist on Columbia and Verve, and a valuable session player for a host of high-profile artists, including Diana Krall, Ray Brown, Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. In the summer of 2001, Malone and Green first performed as a duo at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland.
Although Benny Green and Russell Malone may not look like seasoned veterans of the jazz scene, their extraordinary talent and deep commitment to the jazz tradition have earned them prominent niches in the genre. Their stunning work on Jazz at the Bistro confirms that they have a great deal more to say.
(concordmusicgroup. com)
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"As a guitarist, perhaps one of the most challenging musical contexts is playing duo with a pianist...You really have to listen to each other, and trust each other. When musicians trust each other, they don't have to ‘make’ anything happen. It happens naturally." —Russell Malone, from the liner notes
Telarc will release Jazz at the Bistro with pianist Benny Green and guitarist Russell Malone, a recording dedicated to the memory of the late jazz bassist Ray Brown.
Jazz at the Bistro’s fifteen tracks (recorded live over a four-night stand at the St. Louis club) include Thelonius Monk’s “Ask Me Now,” Benny Carter’s “When Lights Are Low,” Cannonball Adderley’s “Wabash,” Billy Strayhorn’s “The Intimacy of the Blues” and John Coltrane’s “Moment’s Notice”/“Lazy Bird.” In the hands of these two young jazz lions, these classic tunes sound fresher than ever. Produced by Elaine Martone, Jazz at the Bistro also spotlights a pair of original compositions (Green’s “Quiet Girl” and Malone’s “Hand-Told Stories”).
Born in New York in 1963 and raised in Berkeley, California, Benny Green began studying classical piano at age seven and was introduced to jazz by his father. After moving back to New York in 1982, he gigged with Betty Carter, then Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. After extensive touring with Freddie Hubbard, he joined Ray Brown’s trio in 1992 and his reputation quickly spread. In 1993, Oscar Peterson chose Green as the first recipient of the city of Toronto’s Glenn Gould International Protege Prize. Green later teamed up with Peterson on Telarc’s Oscar and Benny, released in 1998.
Green’s Telarc debut, Naturally (CD-83498), featured Malone and bassist Christian McBride, and was recorded just days after an acclaimed performance at the 2000 IAJE Conference in New Orleans. Green’s Blues (CD-83539), released in 2001, was an exciting solo collection of jazz standards by Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner and George Gershwin, among others.
Russell Malone started playing music when he was five. A sophisticated and versatile guitarist, his influences range from swing to R&B. Malone first made his mark with Jimmy Smith’s band in the late 1980s. Over the past decade, he has maintained a successful dual career as a solo artist on Columbia and Verve, and a valuable session player for a host of high-profile artists, including Diana Krall, Ray Brown, Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. In the summer of 2001, Malone and Green first performed as a duo at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland.
Although Benny Green and Russell Malone may not look like seasoned veterans of the jazz scene, their extraordinary talent and deep commitment to the jazz tradition have earned them prominent niches in the genre. Their stunning work on Jazz at the Bistro confirms that they have a great deal more to say.
(concordmusicgroup. com)
Rezensionen
S. Richter in FonoForum 4/03: "Einfühlsam spielen sie sich durch ein abwechslungsreiches Repertoire von Monk und Coltrane bis zu Roberta Flack und den Bee Gees und erweisen sich mit ihrem Spiel voller Ideen als würdige Nachfolger von Oscar Peterson und Joe Pass."- Tracklisting
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- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Ask me now
- 2 Tale of the fingers
- 3 A bientôt
- 4 Sing
- 5 When lights are low
- 6 Wabash
Killing me softly
- 7 How deep is your love?
- 8 The intimacy of the blues
- 9 Moment's notice / Lazy bird
- 10 Love letters
- 11 Russel's introduction
- 12 Quiet girl
- 13 Benny's introduction
- 14 Hand-told stories
- 15 The intimacy of the blues (Alternate Take)