Ronny Jordan: A Brighter Day (CD)

Ronny Jordan (geb. 1962)

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Label:: Blue Note
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 1999
UPC/EAN:: 0724352020829
Erscheinungstermin:: 30.3.2000

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As the reality of Y2K took hold, no doubt many artists went with forward-thinking album titles for their first efforts of the new millennium. But guitarist Ronny Jordan wasn't thinking of trendiness or even the calendar shift when he called his Blue Note debut A Brighter Day. His 1992 jazz / hip-hop-fused release The Antidote made him an instant star on London's burgeoning acid-jazz scene. The wide stylistic diversity on the self-produced A Brighter Day — which takes him on excursions into Brazilian, Latin, straight-ahead, even Indian music, with only a few passing nods to his acidic roots — makes for his most organic and honest effort to date. The title also celebrates his most effective electric guitar playing thus far. On the track titled "Two Worlds," Jordan spins a crisp, Wes Montgomery-styled melody over an increasingly aggressive bossa-minded percussion pattern, holding occasional but few bar conversations with the Latin-styled piano of Marcus Persiani. Jordan also goes the Brazilian route on "Rio," albeit with a subtler, more spiritual edge. A gentle Indian flute harmony and a soaring female chant alternately wrap around his high-toned strings, all over the patter of Shivas Shankar's tablas on a spirited reworking of Victor Feldman's "New Delhi." When he's not exploring the worldly beats, Jordan reconnects with the jazz roots that predated his acid-jazz days. A longtime fan of Roy Ayers, he reworks the vibist's 25-year-old "Mystic Voyage" into a funky jam session, holding sparkling, improv, call-and-response exchanges between electric guitar and vibes. Vibes also play a crucial role on "5 / 8 in Flow"; Stefon Harris bubbles over the oddly metered drum pattern of Jeff "Tain" Watts between tight guitar melodies that firmly display Jordan's Wes Montgomery and Grant Green influences. It's clear that Jordan is more at home with his exploring of different rhythms, but he can't resist paying homage to the sounds that made him famous.

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B. Klostermann in Stereo 6/00: "Gitarrist Ronny Jordan, zentrale Figur der Londoner Acid-Jazz-Szene, nimmt den Wechsel zum renommierten US-Jazzlabel zum Anlass, neue Vielseitigkeit zu zeigen. Sein Mix aus Trip-Hop und Hip-Hop, Latin und Oriental, Pop und Combo-Jazz wird verbunden durch die Green-Montgomery-Benson-geschulte Gitarre und entspannt funkige Grooves. Partytauglich." W. Stiefele in Audio 07/00: "Der Brite Ronnie Jordan, der bei Jazzmatazz Aufmerksamkeit erregte, groovt eingängig über Rhythmen zwischen TripHop, HipHop und traditionellem Soul-Jazz, ein feines Kontrast- programm zwischen gestern und heute."