Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band "Strive for Jive"
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin Big Band in Vienne (France), 1996.
Piano,leader and arranger: Toshiko Akiyoshi,
Trumpets: Mike Ponella, John Eckert, Andrew J. Gravish, Joe Magnarelli
Trombones: Pat Hallaren, Joe Helleny, Scott Whitfield, Tim Newman
saxes, flutes, clar.: Lew Tabackin, Dave Pietro, Jim Snidero, Tom Christensen, Scott Robinson
Bass: Doug Weiss
Drums: Terry Clarke
Bravo Mike Ponne4lla and Andi Gravish
Yeah Andy Gravish!
One of my college bands played this song when I was blowing lead trumpet for them - this is the most difficult tune I ever had to play! I remember renaming the song "Take a Dive" when we tried to play it at this tempo!!!
Toshiko... GODDESS!
Love it! Now that's Jazz! I'm a big Lew Tabackin Fan, this is a great performance, by all the soloist. can we get some more? It just puts me in a great mood...
What an inspiring musician and person! You get the feeling he could express himself on any instrument like that. It's what he hears and feels. Bravo!
scott Robinson is extraordinary.
wow wow wow..... scott whitfield
Mike Ponella playing great lead trumpet!
Feel that pulse, amplify the ride cymbal and hi-hat's "chic" in your imagination--and the same for the tones of the unfaltering "walking acoustic bass." This is the heart-beat of great jazz--the pulse that's the very essence of that forgotten word "swing." It's flowing and free, driving through and marking the main sections of this 32-bar "Rhythm" tune while serving as the foundation for each inspired, thoughtfully constructed solo.,
Sadly, swing appears to be yielding the stage to the various shuffle rhythms that "activate" a crowd, producing "bobble-heads" everywhere you look (ONE-and-THREE-and-FIVE-and-SET-and/") even were the bass and drums clearly amplified, most people can no longer hear the pulse that the public at one time could even figure out how to dance to (e.g. during Paul Gonsalves' marathon 30-chorus solo on "Ellington at Newport 1956. Notice the increasing number of "jazz" drummers who appear uncomfortable playing straight swing (an erratic or dormant hi-hat gives it away).
One thing that's readily served up, esp. if a creative musician is paid, is "JIVE," which was once a pejorative term used to dismiss musicians whose repertoire consisting of "riffing" on a chord or two. The title may be intentionally ironic, because the music you're hearing is far more complex than jive, which requires no striving on a good musician's part. Toshiko is reflecting the music of jazz' foemost creative minds--esp. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and, above all, Bud Powell, her primary influence and mentor.
Toshiko's may have been the last large jazz ensemble to play music of this caliber--music combining Toshiko's knowledge of Japanese traditions (Noh, Kabuki, etc.) with the Bud Powell flame that attracted her to the U.S.,A. in the 1950s. Based on her solo concerts in the present millennium, it's fair to say that, had she been given some of the private grants and financial support that's been bestowed upon a small group of younger artists, she would still be developing and performing her challenging music in awesome ensembles like this one.
Trombonist is up there with Rosolino (though no one has equalled the clean articulations of Carl Fontana (Phil Wilson's favorite trombonist).
Phil Wilson! I played with him in 1984, when I won western District Massachusettes guitar high school
Scott Whitfield is the man. When they do tributes in LA to Frank, usually he is the guy they call for it.
Scott Whitfield on the trombone solo was dynamite. That is very hard to play those ideas that fast on trombone.
Wowie zowie.