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LondonJazz: LP REVIEW: George Benson – Beyond the Blue Horizon 14.01.15 13:45 Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um die Bereitstellung von Diensten zu verbessern. Durch die Nutzung dieser Website erklären Sie sich mit der Verwendung von Cookies einverstanden. Home Venues Can We Help? Team LondonJazz - Facebook THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER LP REVIEW: George Benson To subscribe for our weekly newsletter, Just email the Editor (in 'Team' – Beyond the Blue Horizon above) George Benson – Beyond the Blue Horizon (Speakers Corner/CTI 6009. LP review by Andrew Cartmel) Beyond the Blue Horizon, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1971, was George Follow Benson’s debut on CTI records and sees the guitar prodigy moving out of the Tweets Follow shadow of Wes Montgomery and towards the sort of funky territory exemplified by Hippodrome 11 Jan Body Talk(reviewed here). That album featured Benson playing in the context of Casino Pete Cater Big Band what was virtually a big band, but here he is accompanied by an admirably stripped- @HippodromeLDN down small group of top players. It makes for a striking sound, and there is an We've got @LouiseGolbey agreeable hit of psychedelia to the proceedings, which points the way towards & very special guest @omarlyefookMBE live records like White Rabbit, which would be Benson’s next album for CTI. this Thursday. Don’t miss out! Tickets here: Miles Davis’s So What? introduces us to the keyboard work of Clarence Palmer. He bit.ly/1HNgPmS opens the tune with an ecclesiastical electric organ sound that rapidly becomes Retweeted by secular. Which is to say, he brings home the funk. There is a military march impulse LondonJazz News opening up into a skeletal drum set piece by Jack DeJohnette on drums while Ron Expand Carter’s bass walks down the steps to the basement. And all through it Benson LondonJazz 5h plays chords as big as houses, fast and effortless, throwing out measures that spiral News furiously, like a cat chasing its tail. @LondonJazz A late Happy New Year wish for our good friends The Gentle Rain by Luiz Bonfá begins with insistent churchy organ from Palmer and at @JAZZTHETIK : keep haiku plucking from the leader before blossoming beautifully with Benson’s guitar. truckin'! SONGS FOR QUINTET The beseeching quality of the song is magnified by his virtuosic, repetitive riffing pic.twitter.com/XYzkoGtqvb which delays melodic gratification in an almost erotic way. Mysterioso sonics come from what appears to be Ron Carter playing an electric cello (or a cello with an electric pickup), an eldritch sound that provides angular commentary like a string section in purgatory. Abetted by Palmer’s organ, this introduces the psychedelic element mentioned earlier — the summer of love wasn’t so long ago. On All Clear, a George Benson original, Carter provides more electronica, buzzing and tweeting and swirling, to both contrast with and cushion the sharp edged clarity Expand of Benson’s playing. DeJohnette is clipped and businesslike, then reins in and plays with a great, relaxed feeling of space. Another Benson composition Ode to a Kudu is Tweet to @LondonJazz delicate and meditative with a raw edge to the electric guitar that lends a mood of unadorned, pictorial simplicity. Methodical, sparing drums from DeJohnette and great, yearning sheets of sound from Carter float under Benson’s playing. Moving from the lyrical to the experimental Somewhere In The East is the third Benson Links We Like - UK Jazz STONEY LANE RECORDS original and percussionists Michael Cameron and Albert Nicholson lead us into an out-there excursion as Palmer’s organ chimes in and Benson’s strings cut through bebop spoken here the thickening sound like a machete. Insistent, uneasy, and exciting. CD Review: Verneri Pohjola - Bullhorn This small group set throws Benson’s playing into sharp focus: there’s nowhere for The Jazz Breakfast Anouar Brahem – Souvenance him to hide—and no need for him to do so. What is exposed is consistently impressive, a relaxed mastery of his instrument. The minimal setting also shows The Jazz Mann Eyot - Similarity how much Carter’s string work can add in terms of colours and textures, even hinting at orchestral forces. Beyond the Blue Horizon is a key album in the guitarist’s Jazz Yorkshire Jazz Education at the Jazz development and a great example of getting a big, rich sound out of a small unit. It Coop also probably never sounded better on vinyl than this lush, lucid Speakers Corner thebluemoment.com http://www.londonjazznews.com/2015/01/lp-review-george-benson-beyond-blue.html Seite 1 von 5 LondonJazz: LP REVIEW: George Benson – Beyond the Blue Horizon 14.01.15 13:45 reissue. 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