| Varner, Tom / Second Communion |
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| Album: | Second Communion | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Varner, Tom | Added: | May 2002 | |
| Label: | Omnitone | |||
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 12, 2002: | Memory Select Don's Hymn, Complete Communion [entire suite] | 3. | May 24, 2002: | Memory Select Complete Communion | |
| 2. | Jun 21, 2002: | Memory Select Cherryco | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2002-05-15 | ||
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A tribute to Don Cherry, featuring a cover of his "Complete Communion" suite (tracks 2-6). This is fairly straightforward stuff with some interesting composing and the occasional spastic, outside passage, maybe a shade more conservative than what Cherry and Ornette Coleman preached. Varner leads the band on french horn (!). Tony Malaby does a good job on sax, playing more "out" than I've heard from him before (see #8, and #5 sort of) 1- Midtempo 2- Big grand sound, w/the slightly out-of-unison playing that Cherry & Ornette were big on. Gets speeder after the first minute or so. 3- Mid/fast, w/blazing guitar! 4- Mid/fast, Great bop/swing theme 5- Mostly slow; great, richly toned sax solo 6- Midtempo, lots of freedom, ends with fast reprise of #2 7- Mid/fast with some nice group passages 8- Varner's own suite, nice majestic mid/slow sound. Vicious guitar-steeped ending. 9- Slow, murky 10- Fast, march-like 11- Slow | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Watts '56 | 6. | Paris Ambulance Song/ ... | |||
| 2. | Complete Communion | 7. | Cherryco | |||
| 3. | And Now | 8. | Don's Big View | |||
| 4. | Golden Heart | 9. | Leaving Malaga | |||
| 5. | Remembrance (My Folks) | 10. | Elephantasy | |||
| 11. | Don's Hymn | |||||