Special Quartet

Occupation

Special Quartet is a jazz album by David Murray, recorded March 26, 1990, published in 1991, the Japanese DIW jazz label, a sub-label of Columbia Records.

The album

Notwithstanding recorded by his former quartet with Dave Burrell, Fred Hopkins and Ralph Peterson, with the Murray albums Lovers, tenor, Ballads and Spirituals in January 1988, he chose for his first recordings at the beginning of the 1990s, aware of the two ( available ) Members the legendary John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s, the pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones, accompanied by his longtime partner, bassist Fred Hopkins. David Murray had worked with Tyner two years earlier on the album " Blues for Coltrane " ( MCA), accompanied by Cecil McBee and Roy Haynes on which they have grappled with Coltrane's work ( approximately entitled I Want to Talk About You, who was in 1986 the title track on a Black Saint album by saxophonist John Hicks ). The success of the first Tyner / Murray cooperation culminated in 1990 in the production of the album " Special Quartet "; Murray went here a priority to play " in the spirit of Coltrane's ".

The album begins with an interpretation of the Coltrane classic from 1959, Cousin Mary, which he had published in 1960 on the Atlantic album Giant Steps. It follows one of the famous Murray compositions, Hope -Scope, which belonged to the repertoire of his bands of the 1980s. The following ballad La Tina Lee wrote his longtime collaborator and friend Lawrence " Butch" Morris for him. Dexter's Dues is Murray's tribute to another great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon; originally "Blues # 1" titled, Murray changed the name of the piece to Dexter Gordon's death, recounted his view to Coltrane's great influences. The title plays the " Special Quartet " in the style of the classic Blue Note recordings Gordons to 1964. Subsequent Ellington ballad In a Sentimental Mood sees Murray as bowing to the classical saxophonists of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Ben Webster and Paul Gonsalves, aware in style held in the 1930s and 1940s; Tyner moves stylistically in this title between ragtime and James P. Johnson, Tin Pan Alley and the Gershwins. The last track of the album, 3 -D Family, an elliptically -scale faster Waltz was originally a composition for Murray Octet, released on his album Home (1981). It has strong links with the music of the Zulu.

Reception

Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album in their Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, the highest rating of four stars.

Title list

Literature / Sources

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
  • Jon W. Poses: liner notes of the album Special Quartet (DIW, 1991)
  • Album ( Jazz )
  • Album 1991
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