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| 0:07:02 | Big Rock | Scott Kinsey | ESC-03692 | 101 |
| 0:08:02 | Teen Town | Marcus Miller | ESC-03692 | 102 |
| 0:07:10 | Memory Of Enchantment | Michiel Borstlap & Yuri Honing | ESC-03692 | 103 |
| 0:10:01 | Weather Is Changing | Trinity | ESC-03692 | 104 |
| 0:04:37 | Pinocchio | Michael Wolff | ESC-03692 | 105 |
| 0:05:02 | Three Views Of A Secret | John McLean | ESC-03692 | 107 |
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| Mysterious Voyages - A Tribute to Weather
Report Various Artists | ESC Records |
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Weather Report's fifteen-year tenure was not only the longest of the fusion groups that emerged from the post-Bitches Brew era?including John McLaughlinfs Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Coreafs Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancockfs Headhunters?it was arguably the most broadly influential. Starting out as an electric free jazz collective but ultimately honing a sound that included world beat rhythms and a more orchestral approach defined by the distinctive sounds and compositions of saxophonist Wayne Shorter and keyboardist Joe Zawinul, Weather Report also introduced a number of inestimable talents, most notably the late bassist Jaco Pastorius, who singlehandedly reinvented the role of the electric bass. Over the years a host of artists have made their debt to Weather Reportfs innovations clear. Guitarist Scott Henderson and bassist Gary Willisf Tribal Tech, for example, clearly found inspiration in latter-period Weather Reportfs sonic textures. Others, like bassist Marcus Miller, paid more direct tribute by recording Pastoriusf gTeen Town,h but reinvented the melody on a slapped and popped fretted bass, instead of simply copying it on a fretless. Both Miller's version of gTeen Townh and an original tribute by Tribal Tech can be found on Mysterious Voyages, a new anthology that pays homage by interpreting well-known (and some not-so-well-known) Weather Report tunes, as well as new pieces acknowledging a clear debt. The generous two and a half hour-plus double-disc set is filled with a veritable whofs who of contemporary jazz, including bassists Christian McBride, Matthew Garrison, and Kai Eckhardt; saxophonists Bill Evans and Bob Malach; pianist/keyboardists Patrice Rushen, Scott Kinsey, and Rachel Z; and drummers Adam Nussbaum, Paco Sery, and Kirk Covington. The material includes Christian Jacob and Terje Geweltfs gentle acoustic piano/bass duet rendition of Zawinulfs gA Remark You Made,h guitarist Rocco Zifarellifs power trio reading of Pastoriusf gHavona,h a surprising newgrass-inflected two-guitar cover of Weather Reportfs biggest hit, gBirdland,h and an Americana-tinged reading of Pastoriusf classic gThree Views of a Secret.h But as much as the covers are worth the price of admission by themselves, some of the new material is equally compelling. Tribal Techfs otherworldly tone poem gYou May Remember Meh suggests how Weather Report might have sounded had it been a guitar-keys-bass-drums quartet. Kai Eckhardtfs gQueen of Cupsh begins with the kind of bass solo Pastorius might be playing if he were alive today, before evolving into a dark and spacious ballad that is more economical, texturally, than anything involving Zawinul could ever be. Scott Kinseyfs gBig Rockh evolves Zawinulfs later world rhythm-based work, sounding like something out of Procession or Sportinf Life: reverential, without being strictly imitative. A broad-based and loving tribute, Mysterious Voyages offers greatest appeal to Weather Report fans who want to hear the music taken to the next step. But homage aside, it also stands alone as a terrific collection of music from some of todayfs most notable fusion names?and a few others who will undoubtedly be heard from more in the future.
Jon Weber Trio East Mambo Mantis John Hagen Various Artists John Heward Trio Ray Mantilla & The New Space Station |
Track Listing: Disc One: Scott Kinsey: Bog Rock; Marcus
Miller: Teen Town; Michiel Borstlap&Yuri
Honing: Memory of Enchantment; Trinity:
Weather
is Changing; Michael Wolff Trio: Pinocchio;
Tribal Tech: You May Remember Me; John
McLean:
Three Views of a Secret; Kai Eckhardt:
Queen
of Cups; Angel Celada: Corner Pocket;
Rachel
Z Trio: On the Milky Way Express; Gary
Willis:
Emancipation Personnel: Scott Kinsey Band: Scott Kinsey (microKorg
vocoder, reason malstrom solo, nord
lead
2, electro organ, samples), Steve Taglione
(alto flute solo, bass clarinet, EWI,
sampled
recorder, electric guitar), Armand
Sabal-Lecco
(electric bass), Brad Dutz (congas,
percussion),
Kirk Covington (Yamaha drums, zildjan
cymbals,
sticks), Cyril Atef and Karim Ziad
(vocalizations,
handclaps), Mamady Keita (sampled vocals) Style: Fusion Review Published: April 22, 2005 |
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