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One Is The Other

Billy Hart Quartet

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Format: CD

Cat No: 3759733

Release Date:  03 March 2014

Label:  ECM

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  602537597338

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary  

  • Description

    The second ECM album by the Billy Hart Quartet is a major musical statement, and one of the outstanding jazz albums of the season. The group's reach - already broad on 2011's widely-acclaimed All Our Reasons - is yet more expansive here. Strong compositions - by leader-drummer Hart, tenorist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson - reflect upon a wide swathe of the music's history, and are distinguished by vivid and imaginative solos and wonderful interplay.

    A basic premise, that this should be a band in which the vastly-experienced Billy Hart gets to play everything he wants to play, has led to a sense of almost unlimited possibility for all participants. There is freedom and joy in this music, and tenderness, too, not least in the set's sole standard, a beautifully-played version of "Some Enchanted Evening".

    Billy Hart was there, right on the scene, when jazz began embracing the even-eighth note as a legitimate resource. On this album, his composition "Yard", a blues, connects Charlie Parker with all those grooves Hart played with Jimmy Smith, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and so many others, and the level of abstraction achieved by every member of the group attests to a long working relationship.

    One is the Other was recorded in New York in 2013, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

    Personnel: Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Ethan Iverson (piano), Ben Street (double bass), Billy Hart (drums)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Lennie Groove
      • 2. Maraschino
      • 3. Teule's Redemption
      • 4. Amethyst
      • 5. Yard
      • 6. Sonnet for Stevie
      • 7. Some Enchanted Evening
      • 8. Big Trees