 Исполнитель: Tim Mayer Название альбома: Resilience Год выпуска: 2011 Формат файлов: MP3@320K/s Размер архива: 143,8 MB Скачать с: turbobit/gigapeta/rapidgator/katfile
02.Escapade 06:50
03.Emperor March 07:22
04.I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry 06:27
05.Fire And Ice 05:31
06.Dance Of The Infidels 04:06
07.Who Knew? 03:51
08.Blue Lace 05:17
09.Work 06:12
10.Klimo 09:54
Tim Mayer, ace tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger, [released] Resilience on Jazz Legacy Productions on Sept. 27, 2011.
The chief ingredient of Mayer’s musical soufflé is jazz in the bebop and hard bop traditions of Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt. Unlike some youngish chefs, Mayer doesn’t merely crib from classic recipes. Like the best cookers, he uses the cookery mood as a point of departure; it’s the inspiration to craft his very own tasty creations. But he is no one-dish wonder — Cape Verdean music, Latin jazz and pop styles, and the mysteries of Exotica are in his cookbook too. Mayer is also deeply involved in music education, tending to the new soil that will produce jazz-to-come.
While not his maiden voyage, Mayer has recorded extensively as a sideperson, Resilience is Mayer’s debut as a leader and first disc for Jazz Legacy Productions. It would be easy (and typical) to record an album of readily recognizable standards, but Mayer struck a balance between ambition and user-friendliness. With a core quartet of Mayer, pianist George Cables, bassist Dezron Douglas, and drummer Willie Jones III, plus a select group of guests (Claudio Roditi, Mark Whitfield), Mayer’s platter swings from the get-go. A few tracks have additional players for a richer sound-a bit plush, a hair away from lush, with thoughtful yet vigorous arrangements in the vein of Tadd Dameron, Don Sebesky, and pre-1965 Gil Evans.
The program of Resilience includes a Mayer original (the hard-swinging Stitt-like “who Knew?”), one oft-covered evergreen (“I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry”), and the balance is comprised of compositions by jazz musicians (Kenny Dorham’s “Escapade,” Charles Tolliver’s “Emperor March”).
“For Miles (by guest-trombonist Michael Dease) surges with and up-an-at-‘em aplomb that evokes the Blue Note glory days of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Dorham’s “Escapade” has a plaintive, pensive air but Mayer’s muscular, concise solo gives it a shot of joie de vive with a blues chaser.
“Guess I’ll Hang…” displays Mayer’s affinity for big-toned, heart-on-sleeve, set-‘em-up-Joe balladry in the tradition of Dexter Gordon, Ike Quebec, and Ben Webster. If this six-minute mini-epic doesn’t get you all “Music, Martinis, and Memories” melancholy, get yourself to a doctor posthaste.
Mayer’s Resilience is, as some purist-types like to say, “in the tradition,” yet Mayer isn’t hemmed in by it. Unlike some younger players, he doesn’t treat the tradition with such pious reverence that all the fun and warmth is blunted—like one of his exemplars Dexter Gordon, Mayer simply has at it and the joy and energy just jumps from your speakers. Mayer’s motto/mission statement: “To get that feeling, I’m taking the music where it wants to go.”
Tim Mayer’s horizons have grown exponentially. He has performed locally with Jon Faddis, Nick Brignola, Slide Hampton, and Bob Mintzer. He expanded his scope to include Afro-Cuban/Latin jazz styles, playing with Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, Giovani Hidalgo, and Danilo Perez. Done with Berklee in 1997, Mayer joined Sol Y Canto, a folklorico-oriented Boston-area band that he’s performed with sporadically ever since. More recently, with his band 5LMN2 (Los Cinco Elementos), Mayer still explores the area(s) where jazz and Afro-Cuban sounds overlap and coalesce. Another venture, Gonzalo Grau y La Clave Secreta (formerly known as Timba Loca) released Frutero Moderno, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Tropical/Latin Album. Another avenue of expression is his appreciation of exotica, which is evinced by his membership in the Waitiki 7. Mayer and Randy Wong produced two Hawaii Music Award winning albums for the group – New Sounds of Exotica (2010) received Adult Contemporary Album of the Year and Adventures in Paradise (2009) won Exotica Album of the Year. Contrary to the purist line of thinking, a human does not live by jazz alone. As if that weren’t enough, Mayer has an extensive resume in the sphere of Cape Verdean folk and pop, playing on albums by Bana, the Mendes Brothers, and Jack Pina.
In the great kitchen that is jazz, Mayer has notions waiting to be realized and served up in style. Realizing it’s not enough to simply cook well, Mayer knows how to present a savory meal. Compositionally, his stove is stoked by the blazing heat of hard bop trumpet icon Lee Morgan.
“Everything he played was solidly rooted in the blues,” Mayer said in a news release. Band-wise, his ideal is Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. (Think of Blakey as “restaurateur” whose kitchens are perhaps the finest proving grounds for chefs of the future.) With those muses, it’s no wonder the varied and tangy Resilience has the zing and gusto of a fine repast, one that leaves the listener with a cozy afterglow.
Tim Mayer - tenor saxophone
George Cables - piano
Dezron Douglas - bass
Willie Jones III - drums
Featuring:
Claudio Roditi - trumpet
Greg Gisbert - trumpet
Dominick Farinacci - trumpet
Michael Dease - trombones
Mark Whitfield - guitar
Don Braden - flute
Jazz Legacy Productions – 1101015 (US)
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