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Personnel: Ayler, tenor sax; Call Cobbs, piano; (_/ consistent player). Steve Tintweiss, bass; Allen BlaIrman. drums. An auspicious ace of trumps in Cobble­ Rating: ***½ SONNY STITT stone's first deal of new releases, boding well TUNE-UPI-Cobblestone 9013: Tune-up; I for the future of a label that has shown the VOLUME 2-Shandar 10.004: Truth Is March­ Can't Get Started; Idaho; Just Friends; Blues for good sense of hiring Don Schlitten to pro­ ing In; Universal Message; Spiritual Reunion; Prez and Bird; Groovin' High; I Got Rhythm. Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe. Personnel: Stitt, alto&tenor sax; Barry Harris, duce. Personnel: as above, but add Mary Maria, voc­ piano; Sam Jones; bass; Alan Dawson, drums. The Gordon LP dates from the summer of al. Rating: ***** 1970. Recorded around the same time as the Rating: ****½ \ monumental The Panther, it is just slightly By 1970, Ayler's studio recordings were ' DEXTERGORDON less consistently inspired- but to compare a presenting an artist in steady and eventual l THE JUMPIN' BLUES-Prestige PR 10020: Ev­ Rolls Royce to a Bentley might well be con­ extreme decline. In place of the over- ~­ ergreenish; For Sentimental Reasons; Star Eyes; sidered hairsplitting, especially in an era whelming shock and power of his early suc­ Rhythm-a-ning (mislabeled Straight No Chaser); If You Could See Me Now; The Jumpin' Blues. dominated by second-hand Volkswagens. cesses, Ayler was experimenting with rock, Personnel: Gordon, tenor sax; Wynton Kelly, Gordon is not as fancy a virtuoso as Stitt, vocalists and "message" works, with increas­ piano; Sam Jones, bass; Roy Brooks, drums. but need take a back seat to no tenorist ex­ ingly dire results. His final tour of Europe Rating: ****½ tant. In his case, the medium is the message: took place that summer; the French Shandar , Two albums showcasing a pair of jazz' drive, endurance, soul, sound, and that unique Label taped these concerts in July, four greatest saxophonists without frills or con­ brand of tough-tender emotional ambiance months before Ayler's death. It's good news I cessions to commercialism. that is his alone. that the Shandars are beginning to appear in I The Stitt, recorded just a few months ago, is This, too, is a no-nonsense album of pure American stores; of their concert series (in­ an instant classic. One of the most frequently music. There are two masterpieces: Monk's cluding Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor) these two j recorded of all jazz artists (perhaps the most Rhythm-a-Ning, a ride at high tempo through sets may be the most valuable. frequently recorded), Stitt must have made I Got Rhythm changes that never lets up; and Recording quality aside, they are superior l close to 100 LPs. Tune-Up! belongs with his If You Could See Me Now, a deeply moving to most Ayler Impulses, and they show the half-dozen all-time best, up there with Burn­ interpretation of Tadd Dameron's immortal matured Ayler style undergoing profound re­ in', Personal Appearance, and Stitt Plays ballad that does it full justice. assessment. Some of the material is long fa- I Bird. This track is also graced by a lovely solo miliar, but the relaxed self-consciousness of I No organs or Varitone devices get in the spot from Wynton Kelly, whose last record Ayler's playing here brings a new in­ way here. It's just Sonny Stitt, in superb form, date this was, as far as we know. The pianist trospective quality to his art. For example. ·, with a tailor-made rhythm section, playing a and his cohorts are another perfect supporting the original Spirits Rejoice (ESP I 020) is wild j repertoire in which he is completely at home. team- Roy Brooks has matured into one of and exuberant, with frantic solos. Nothing Stitt is such a master of his instruments that the most musical and energizing drummers on could be more different than this marvelous 1 he can outplay most saxophonists without the scene, and they don't come better than new version, with Ayler's out-of-tempo deco- 1 challenging himself. And he's a sly fox who Sam Jones. rated free-association restatements of the sev- , knows every trick available to simulate pas­ Dexter has a knack for picking near­ eral themes. Frequently they remain unfinish- \ sion and excitement. Thus, he never gives a forgotten tunes of merit; here, he un­ ed, unresolved, as Ayler begins a new theme , poor performance - but there are times when earths for Sentimental Reasons with most with yet more variations. Like Monk's, this \ he just coasts on his expertise. attractive results. He drives home the blues is an interpreter's art; this interpretation is . When he's inspired, however-watch out! on the title track, a memento from Bird's Jay just lovely -Ayler, the grand sentimentalist, 1 And here he surely is. / Got Rhythm, the McShann days. Star Eyes, of course, is also relishing his themes to the utmost. \ crowning glory of this LP, is not only a lesson indelibly associated with Bird, who would Spirits Rejoice is the most remarkable per­ in saxophone playing and ultimate swinging, have found no fault in what Dexter does with formance on these LPs, but the rest of Vol. I 1 but nearly IO minutes of driving, emo­ it. Evergreenish is an aptly titled Gordon orig­ is disorderly. Heart, tempoless again, is all ! tion-filled, impassioned and astonishingly in­ inal with a nostalgic flavor. uninteresting theme and simple variations. ,. ventive music-making. This is one for the This was one of the last sessions produced Ayler's horn sounds cold, and the piece 1 desert island collection. for Prestige by Schlitten before the Fantasy sounds merely like a warmup. The same is Stitt has been called a "cold" player. Don't takeover. Someone saw fit to second-guess somewhat true of Spirits; the recurring you believe it. Check out any track on this him concerning Rhythm-a-ning, which ap­ whimsy and long overtone passages in the great record - the lovely, warm balladry of pears on the liner and label copy as Straight first solo seem to deliberately ayoid in­ Can't Get Started, the hot drive of the title No Chaser. Well, at least they're both by volvement with real ideas. But after the fine , track (a gigantic display of tenor prowess and Monk. Less easily forgivable is the absence of drum solo, Ayler returns with substantial me­ a lesson in swing), or the moving Blues for liner notes, including recording date. Instead, lodic lines and more forceful playing. Prez and Bird (Stilt's twin points of depar­ an amoeba-shaped blue blob adornes the back One problem here is Cobbs' distracting, ture). Such playing is an emotional experience cover. It would have been nice to have used ricky-tickaccompaniment. Though Ayler and as well as a staggering display of virtuoso the space to dedicate this album to the memo­ Blairman are recorded well on top (the bassist skill. Stitt has a lightning mind, and the light­ ry ofWynton Kelly, wouldn't it? is generally inaudible), that primitive cock­ ning fingers and steel chops to realize in­ These LPs are representations of men at tail-piano tinkle lurks through both records. stantly what comes into it. work; something for the boys to listen to and In Holy Cobbs takes an amazingly poor solo, The Messrs. Harris, Jones and Dawson learn from. Undiluted jazz music from mature but Ayler himself doesn't break the 4/4 time give Stitt whatever he could ask for in terms masters who get better and better as time goes at all, content with endless gospelish r&b of support. They never let him down. not even by. For twice, the real thing. - morgen.Hern theme variations. Remarkably, Blairman ac- 18 □ down beat .
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