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THE CONTEMPORARY TROMBONE PACK
As long-playing
shellack, this recording was greatly in demand and as a
compact disc, it's a jazz classic. Marty Cook's illustrious
compositions, the singing, melodic saxophone lines of the
wonderful Jim Pepper, sometimes garnished with the
magic touches of the great old Fakir on the piano, Mal
Waldron; and upon the hand-woven carpet of rhythm made
by the unbeatable bass and drums tandem Ed Schuller
and John Betsch, the climate for primary combustion
comes into being; what takes place is a feast, a banquet!
Marty Cook succeeds in bringing together the various artistic
temperaments of his fellow musicians, the "colours
of jazz": Red, white, black and blue! Get up with it!
"If
Ray Anderson is way out on his own, Marty Cook
must be leading the contemporary trombone pack. Whatever
their respective merits, there is certainly no quantitative
comparison to their respective outputs. Anderson is everywhere,
while Cook's most noted recorded work before the mid-1980s
was a too brief appearance...!" So says the newest
issue of the Penguin Guide To Jazz.
The musical statement
of the album stands as a symbol for the wide stream of various
colours in Cook's music; he has a genial understanding of
how to give his fellow players the right position, from
which they acquire freedom unimagineable; each one of them
responds thankfully, with an almost inconceivable kind of
expressivity in their solos.
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