Plaxico, Lonnie Group / Live at Jazz Standard
| Album: | Live at Jazz Standard | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Plaxico, Lonnie Group | Added: | Jul 2004 | |
| Label: | 441 Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2004-07-26 | Pull Date: | 2004-09-26 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Sep 12 | Sep 5 | Aug 29 | Aug 15 | Aug 8 | Aug 1 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 09, 2010: | The Jazz Hour
A Shorter Take |
4. | Sep 03, 2004: | Princess Limited
The Sidewinder |
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| 2. | Dec 10, 2004: | No Cover, No Minimum - Favorites of 2004, Part 2
The Sidewinder |
5. | Sep 02, 2004: | The Princess de Frise
Senor Silver |
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| 3. | Sep 11, 2004: | Morning Glory
Cachao's Dance |
6. | Aug 28, 2004: | Morning Glory
A Shorter Take |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2004-07-23
Reviewed 2004-07-23
LONNIE PLAXICO GROUP – “Live at Jazz Standard”
441 Records, 2003
Strong post-bop set, live in NYC. Bassist Plaxico leads without dominating, ceding the foreground entirely to his two young horn players. The music is essentially straight-ahead, but has a strong “M-Base” component: a funky downtown/avant-jazz edge that makes itself known through innovatively layered arrangements in the originals (2,4,6,8,9) and unexpected endings to familiar phrases in the standards (1,3,5,7). This disc does a good job of straddling worlds: bop heads will find it fresh and different, but fans of outside jazz should find the faster numbers engaging too.
Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9
1. 5:51 – uptempo, bubbly rhythm, hardbop with a twist; funky horn & piano solos.
2. 5:24 – driving theme & complex arrangement, slinky sax & piano
3. 5:13 – romantic ballad for quartet (sax/piano/bass/brush drums), done straight-up
4. 9:18 – uptempo funky, strong trumpet/sax solos and some very cool piano comping
5. 4:35 – slow drag, very urban, just oozing funk: trumpet & elec. piano in charge
6. 7:04 – perky, complex theme but straightforward solos
7. 5:15 – smoky ballad for trumpet: nothing special, but very well played
8. 5:32 – strong rhythm, Cuban touch, chugging solos
9. 6:59 – fast, lengthy staccato theme, burning solos from everybody
[Fo] – 7/22/04
441 Records, 2003
Strong post-bop set, live in NYC. Bassist Plaxico leads without dominating, ceding the foreground entirely to his two young horn players. The music is essentially straight-ahead, but has a strong “M-Base” component: a funky downtown/avant-jazz edge that makes itself known through innovatively layered arrangements in the originals (2,4,6,8,9) and unexpected endings to familiar phrases in the standards (1,3,5,7). This disc does a good job of straddling worlds: bop heads will find it fresh and different, but fans of outside jazz should find the faster numbers engaging too.
Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9
1. 5:51 – uptempo, bubbly rhythm, hardbop with a twist; funky horn & piano solos.
2. 5:24 – driving theme & complex arrangement, slinky sax & piano
3. 5:13 – romantic ballad for quartet (sax/piano/bass/brush drums), done straight-up
4. 9:18 – uptempo funky, strong trumpet/sax solos and some very cool piano comping
5. 4:35 – slow drag, very urban, just oozing funk: trumpet & elec. piano in charge
6. 7:04 – perky, complex theme but straightforward solos
7. 5:15 – smoky ballad for trumpet: nothing special, but very well played
8. 5:32 – strong rhythm, Cuban touch, chugging solos
9. 6:59 – fast, lengthy staccato theme, burning solos from everybody
[Fo] – 7/22/04
Track Listing
| 1. | The Sidewinder | 5. | Summertime | |||
| 2. | Jumping Jacks | 6. | Along Came Benny | |||
| 3. | Dedicated to You | 7. | You Don't Know What Love Is | |||
| 4. | A Shorter Take | 8. | Cachao's Dance | |||
| 9. | Senor Silver | |||||