Enjoy and dig this really fine music showing you mastery, feelings and invention, not to mention the magical merging of different instrumental colors; listen to the flute - trumpet unison phases; or harmonized passages; to the wonderfully sculptured bass foundations; to growling and an dynamically controlled rolls of Victor's fascinating drums; the admirable improvises solos of flute and trumpet on "June Bug" and - carefully listen what Randy does beneath: the inventive comping, now and again exploding in wonderful soling.
Krzysztof Popek
House of Jade
PowerBros PB 00191 (2006)
...the lovely trumpet flute voicing against the punch of the first-rate rhytm section. Popek's quintet knack for reinventing pieces from a diverse group of composers - Abdullah Ibrahim, Wayne Shorter, Randy Weston and Ellington - makes this session gel. more... (Elliott Simon, AllAboutJazz - New York, November 2006)
Tracks:
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Calypso minor (Abdullah Ibrahim)
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House of Jade (Wayne Shorter)
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Hi-fly (Randy Weston)
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Dragon (Frank Henke)
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June bug (Tommy Turrentine)
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Lost in meditation (Duke Ellington)
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Each one ( must ) teach one (Courtney Pine)
Personnel:
Krzysztof Popek - alto flute
Piotr Wojtasik - trumpet, fluegelhorn
Randy Porter - piano
David Friesen - bass
Victor Lewis - drums
Recorded:
Recorded and mixed at Studio S-4, Warsaw, Poland on February 28, 2005
About:
Enjoy and dig this really fine music showing you mastery, feelings and invention, not to mention the magical merging of different instrumental colors; listen to the flute - trumpet unison phases; or harmonized passages; to the wonderfully sculptured bass foundations; to growling and an dynamically controlled rolls of Victor's fascinating drums; the admirable improvises solos of flute and trumpet on "June Bug" and - carefully listen what randy does beneath: the inventive comping, now and again exploding in wonderful soling.
Manufacturer: PowerBros Records
SKU: PB00191