Bob: A Palindrome
Jazz
| Mar 2013
Reviews
Fo
Reviewed 2013-03-20
Reviewed 2013-03-20
ROBERT HURST: BoB: A Palindrome
Bebob, 2013
POSTBOP – Excellent, deep-running music from a top bassist leading an all-star septet. These tunes all have a balance of dark atmosphere and forceful rhythm, with the kind of unforced cohesion that only the best bands can really pull off. Sometimes heavy, often funky, all great.
Robert Hurst : bass
Marcus Belgrave : trumpet, flugelhorn
Branford Marsalis : saxophones
Bennie Maupin : flute, bass clarinet, saxophones
Robert Glasper : piano, Rhodes
Jeff "Tain" Watts : drums
Adam Rudolph : percussion
All excellent! Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9
Tracks 5-7 are a suite but can be played separately.
1. 7:20 – brisk, dusky waltz with flute: solos (including bowed bass) really sing
2. 4:16 – dark, sneaky stroll: very cool electric piano, trumpet & soprano sax
3. 8:25 – perky midtempo glide with a latin touch; sax really turns up the heat
4. 6:37 – rolling drums set up a cool, bluesy drag: sax and piano solos unfurl
5. 1:38 – shrouded in mist: dark, creaky drone and atmospheric percussion
6. 7:15 – slow, exotic elegy with brooding melody, African rhythm, soft flute
7. 12:56 – deep solo bass, striding post-bop blues, a fiery sax duet pulls it forward most of the way, then it ends in chaos
8. 7:51 – relaxed and very soulful with tinkly keyboard and slinky latin rhythm
9. 5:55 – uptempo, angular modern-bop, quick-walking bass & peppy drums
10. 6:28 – streetwise jamming, everybody’s conversing
[ Fo ] - 20 March 2013
Bebob, 2013
POSTBOP – Excellent, deep-running music from a top bassist leading an all-star septet. These tunes all have a balance of dark atmosphere and forceful rhythm, with the kind of unforced cohesion that only the best bands can really pull off. Sometimes heavy, often funky, all great.
Robert Hurst : bass
Marcus Belgrave : trumpet, flugelhorn
Branford Marsalis : saxophones
Bennie Maupin : flute, bass clarinet, saxophones
Robert Glasper : piano, Rhodes
Jeff "Tain" Watts : drums
Adam Rudolph : percussion
All excellent! Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9
Tracks 5-7 are a suite but can be played separately.
1. 7:20 – brisk, dusky waltz with flute: solos (including bowed bass) really sing
2. 4:16 – dark, sneaky stroll: very cool electric piano, trumpet & soprano sax
3. 8:25 – perky midtempo glide with a latin touch; sax really turns up the heat
4. 6:37 – rolling drums set up a cool, bluesy drag: sax and piano solos unfurl
5. 1:38 – shrouded in mist: dark, creaky drone and atmospheric percussion
6. 7:15 – slow, exotic elegy with brooding melody, African rhythm, soft flute
7. 12:56 – deep solo bass, striding post-bop blues, a fiery sax duet pulls it forward most of the way, then it ends in chaos
8. 7:51 – relaxed and very soulful with tinkly keyboard and slinky latin rhythm
9. 5:55 – uptempo, angular modern-bop, quick-walking bass & peppy drums
10. 6:28 – streetwise jamming, everybody’s conversing
[ Fo ] - 20 March 2013
Recent airplay
Indiscreet In Da Street
Clean Copper Radio — May 11, 2015
3 For Lawrence
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Big Queen
No Cover, No Minimum: Remembering 2013 — Jan 03, 2014
Picked From Nick
No Cover, No Minimum — Oct 11, 2013
Middle Passage Suite: 3 - For Those Of Us Still Here
No Cover, No Minimum — Aug 09, 2013
Big Queen
Green Copper Radio — May 22, 2013
Charting
2013-03-24 — 2013-05-27
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| May 26 | 1 |
| May 19 | 2 |
| May 12 | 2 |
| May 5 | 1 |
| Apr 28 | 2 |
| Apr 21 | 1 |
| Apr 14 | 1 |
| Apr 7 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | 3 For Lawrence | ||
| 2. | Picked From Nick | ||
| 3. | Big Queen | ||
| 4. | Tigers On Venus | ||
| 5. | Middle Passage Suite: 1 - For Those Of Us Who Made It | ||
| 6. | Middle Passage Suite: 2 - For Those Of Us That Didn't Make It | ||
| 7. | Middle Passage Suite: 3 - For Those Of Us Still Here | ||
| 8. | Little Queen | ||
| 9. | Indiscreet In Da Street | ||
| 10. | Jamming (Ichabad) |