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As a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett acquired a well-deserved reputation as an avant-gardist. However, as this album proved in 1984 (and others have proven countless times since), his talents also run to the more conventional. Though Ebu has a taste of the arcane, it is mostly a collection of relatively straightahead Bluiett-penned blowing vehicles done with fire and invention. Bluiett has the biggest sound in town; his phrasing and articulation is a little heavy, as one would expect, but he plays with a strength and conviction that's rarely equalled by other baritonists. And, of course, he has an immediately identifiable style. His band -- John Hicks, piano; Fred Hopkins, bass; Marvin "Smitty" Smith, drums -- is well-attentive to the music's needs, and ambitious enough to take it to places not commonly explored. An interesting album, given the perspective of the years that have passed since it was made. It's very straightahead; however, it's wildly different from the mannered product that's usually presented as mainstream jazz in the late '90s. This music has a manifest unruliness, a spirit of adventure; it leaps outrageously into the unknown and usually lands square on its feet--unlike it's contemporary equivalent, which can rarely be bothered to scuff it's polished Gucci loafers. If jazz remains content to continually re-examine its past, this would be a great place to revisit.
© Chris Kelsey /TiVo
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Hamiet Bluiett, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin "Smitty" Smith, AssociatedPerformer - John Hicks, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Hopkins, AssociatedPerformer - Teimah Music Co., MusicPublisher - Giovanni Bonandrini, Producer
1984 Kepach Music S.r.l. 1984 Kepach Music S.r.l.
Hamiet Bluiett, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin "Smitty" Smith, AssociatedPerformer - John Hicks, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Hopkins, AssociatedPerformer - Teimah Music Co., MusicPublisher - Giovanni Bonandrini, Producer
1984 Kepach Music S.r.l. 1984 Kepach Music S.r.l.
Hamiet Bluiett, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin "Smitty" Smith, AssociatedPerformer - John Hicks, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Hopkins, AssociatedPerformer - Teimah Music Co., MusicPublisher - Giovanni Bonandrini, Producer
1984 Kepach Music S.r.l. 1984 Kepach Music S.r.l.
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Hamiet Bluiett, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin "Smitty" Smith, AssociatedPerformer - John Hicks, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Hopkins, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Lundi, Composer - Giovanni Bonandrini, Producer
1984 Kepach Music S.r.l. 1984 Kepach Music S.r.l.
Hamiet Bluiett, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin "Smitty" Smith, AssociatedPerformer - John Hicks, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Hopkins, AssociatedPerformer - Teimah Music Co., MusicPublisher - Giovanni Bonandrini, Producer
1984 Kepach Music S.r.l. 1984 Kepach Music S.r.l.
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Dizzy Gillespie, Composer - FRANK PAPARELLI, Composer - Hamiet Bluiett, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin "Smitty" Smith, AssociatedPerformer - John Hicks, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Hopkins, AssociatedPerformer - Giovanni Bonandrini, Producer
1984 Kepach Music S.r.l. 1984 Kepach Music S.r.l.
Album review
As a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett acquired a well-deserved reputation as an avant-gardist. However, as this album proved in 1984 (and others have proven countless times since), his talents also run to the more conventional. Though Ebu has a taste of the arcane, it is mostly a collection of relatively straightahead Bluiett-penned blowing vehicles done with fire and invention. Bluiett has the biggest sound in town; his phrasing and articulation is a little heavy, as one would expect, but he plays with a strength and conviction that's rarely equalled by other baritonists. And, of course, he has an immediately identifiable style. His band -- John Hicks, piano; Fred Hopkins, bass; Marvin "Smitty" Smith, drums -- is well-attentive to the music's needs, and ambitious enough to take it to places not commonly explored. An interesting album, given the perspective of the years that have passed since it was made. It's very straightahead; however, it's wildly different from the mannered product that's usually presented as mainstream jazz in the late '90s. This music has a manifest unruliness, a spirit of adventure; it leaps outrageously into the unknown and usually lands square on its feet--unlike it's contemporary equivalent, which can rarely be bothered to scuff it's polished Gucci loafers. If jazz remains content to continually re-examine its past, this would be a great place to revisit.
© Chris Kelsey /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 6 track(s)
- Total length: 00:44:32
- Main artists: Hamiet Bluiett
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Soul Note
- Genre: Jazz
1984 Kepach Music S.r.l. 1984 Kepach Music S.r.l.
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