Gerald Clayton - Ones & Twos 2025

Исполнитель: Gerald Clayton
Альбом: Ones & Twos
Жанр: Jazz
Год: 2025
Страна: USA (Los Angeles)
Лейбл: Blue Note Records
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR9
Разрядность: 24bit / 96kHz Stereo
Размер: 850 MB
Инфо: wiki
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Since 2003, Gerald Clayton has evolved his formalist perspective on post-bop, straight-ahead jazz into an increasingly nuanced balance of its populist and progressive streams. 2020's Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard, a Grammy-nominated essay in progressive formalism, plays with the iconic postures of jazz's late golden age while stringently advancing the tradition with fluid next-gen skills and harmonic reach; 2022's Bells on Sand, expansively flashes aspects of modern classical composition, contemplative '70s jazz chords and moods, and the trippy, who-knows-what? approach of Charles Lloyd (with whom Clayton has played over the past decade-plus) with light, imagistic flair. As pianist/musical director Out Of/Into, a quintet of current Blue Note all-stars, he continues to advance Happenings' progressive/formal bop conceptions with the organic cool that comes with multi-generational remove.

Ones & Twos addresses the search for a new land of postmodern jazz. Nodding toward concepts of turntablism and duality, Clayton presents the album as an "experimental" effort, but it is never less than compulsive and listenable, even in its most outré moments. This is partly down to the talents of the band—Out Of/Into's vibraphonist Joel Ross and drummer Kendrick Scott, flutist Elena Pinderhughes and trumpeter Marquis Hill—and Clayton's writing, which distills the freedoms found in Bells on Sand into tightly focused new songs. But it may be the production that compels Ones & Twos most vigorously. Electronic processing techniques accents flavors of modern R&B and dance music seamlessly in the mix, with production co-credits from acclaimed jazz futurist Kassa Overall on three songs and homebrewed wack applied in varying amounts elsewhere. These methods, while not new by the standards of Miles, Herbie and the wiggy '70s outings of others, allow Clayton to access another level of his music. Heady conceptual proposals of side one/side two dualities are interesting but ultimately unobtrusive; this is impeccably played, compelling modern jazz coming from a place of engagement and inquiry.

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