It’s kind of crazy thinking about the recent projects that trumpeter David Weiss has been running lately. He’s the guy behind the excellent veteran supergroup The Cookers, his Endangered Species project’s embrace of the music of Wayne Shorter was pretty amazing, and then there’s his Point of Departure, which is a past eMusic Pick of the Week. Now, with 2014’s When Words Fail, Weiss is back with another solid effort and with a new set of all-stars.
These are straight-ahead tunes, but expressed in a way that has them persistently wavering at the borders. Little things, like the strangely alluring harmonics on “Loss,” the undercurrent of tension on “Lullaby for a Lonely Child,” the slow ebb and strong tide of “MJ,” the tidy bundle of combustible motion that is “Wayward,” the intriguingly haphazard recitation of melody on the title-track and the way it suddenly ratchets up the volume… all these things, and more, create abstractions and differentiation to what otherwise would be a straight-ahead modern post-bop set. Just stellar.
Your album personnel: David Weiss (trumpet), Myron Walden (alto sax), Marcus Strickland (tenor sax), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), E.J. Strickland (drums), and guest: Ben Eusen (guitar).
Released on Motema Music.
Available at: eMusic | Amazon CD
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*****
Some of this review was used originally in the weekly new jazz releases column I write for eMusic, so here’s some language protecting their rights to the reprinted material as the one to hire me to write about new jazz arrivals to their site…
“New Arrivals Jazz Picks,“ reprints courtesy of eMusic.com, Inc.
© 2014 eMusic.com, Inc.
As always, my sincere thanks to eMusic for the gig.
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Aug 4 2014
David Weiss – “When Words Fail”
These are straight-ahead tunes, but expressed in a way that has them persistently wavering at the borders. Little things, like the strangely alluring harmonics on “Loss,” the undercurrent of tension on “Lullaby for a Lonely Child,” the slow ebb and strong tide of “MJ,” the tidy bundle of combustible motion that is “Wayward,” the intriguingly haphazard recitation of melody on the title-track and the way it suddenly ratchets up the volume… all these things, and more, create abstractions and differentiation to what otherwise would be a straight-ahead modern post-bop set. Just stellar.
Your album personnel: David Weiss (trumpet), Myron Walden (alto sax), Marcus Strickland (tenor sax), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), E.J. Strickland (drums), and guest: Ben Eusen (guitar).
Released on Motema Music.
Available at: eMusic | Amazon CD
| Amazon MP3
*****
Some of this review was used originally in the weekly new jazz releases column I write for eMusic, so here’s some language protecting their rights to the reprinted material as the one to hire me to write about new jazz arrivals to their site…
“New Arrivals Jazz Picks,“ reprints courtesy of eMusic.com, Inc.
© 2014 eMusic.com, Inc.
As always, my sincere thanks to eMusic for the gig.
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