(Hard-Bop, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz) [WEB] Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Blue - 2014, FLAC (tracks), lossless
Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Жанр: Hard-Bop, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz
Год издания: 2014
Издатель (лейбл): Hot Cup Records
Номер по каталогу: HC141
Страна исполнителя (группы): USA
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 45:44
Источник (релизер): WEB (спасибо BenchtopGin)
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: нет
Треклист:
1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue in Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches
Лог проверки качества
-----------------------
DON'T MODIFY THIS FILE
-----------------------
PERFORMER: auCDtect Task Manager, ver. 1.6.0 RC1 build 1.6.0.1
Copyright (c) 2008-2010 y-soft. All rights reserved
http://y-soft.org
ANALYZER: auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright (c) 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
FILE: 05 - Flamenco Sketches.flac
Size: 51459520 Hash: F06FCB99BE1BA028B7EF66FC5641B3B8 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 54%
Signature: 756641AF858DD9A8C4742810DCABE5A440D547B0
FILE: 04 - All Blues.flac
Size: 74351729 Hash: 82C3A77CF2376A8B282ABA217773A5F4 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
Signature: 5C833F8D8D1390BA730A807D955639E259D55283
FILE: 03 - Blue in Green.flac
Size: 30583967 Hash: A91FFB42A734734DBC17F6880B6EDB41 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 43%
Signature: 0727FD3B3FF2E18555EA91A7FD2FB5F0C15491B4
FILE: 02 - Freddie Freeloader.flac
Size: 63920856 Hash: 480261D7D796936DE99351B5AC52C1BB Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: MPEG 95%
Signature: 2835CC3E5E3BA14715E5C42CC8E6EECF4BB4A838
FILE: 01 - So What.flac
Size: 59827818 Hash: 25ECC4FDB1A10C7F524241FFD71C2C24 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: MPEG 85%
Signature: F81AE40FB5B6EC4EA70E9126454AA0C3EDB03CDB
Скриншот спектра частот
Об альбоме
Imagine coming home from work to find the furniture in your house was moved and say, your tooth brush is now on the other side of the bathroom sink. A few inches here, and a few inches there. Would you notice? Maybe yes, if you had been gone just a day. What happens in the same scenario if you returned after a month's vacation. You may never discern the change.
Now, consider Mostly Other People Do The Killing's note-for-note remake of Miles Davis' seminal recording Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959). Is that month-long absence what Moppa Elliott's quintet is going for?
The band, which is known for painting the musical equivalent of a mustache on the Mona Lisa, takes on the task of actually painting La Gioconda. Play Blue for any unknowing jazz fan, and I dare say they won't recognize this counterfeit edition.
So, what is the point of this exercise? The liner notes to the disc, a reprinting of Jorge Luis Borges satirical piece "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," hint at the answer. Borges writes a glowing review of a word-for-word recreation of Cervantes text. Citing Menard's work, with tongue-in-cheek, as anything but plagairism, Borges' spoof calls us, not to worship heroes, but to kill them. Because to glorify them, we have in effect destroyed our own creativity.
MOPDTK is perhaps one of the most unorthodox bohemian bands working today. Their technical skills, as evidenced here (and in their previous six discs), are superlative. By recreating, not just the notes, but the sound of Miles' recording, Elliott suggests (like Borges) that imitation of our heroes alone equals death. Calling jazz, "America's classical music," is commensurate with musical taxidermy.
Blue is not the same treatment as director Gus Van Sant's shot- for-shot remake of Hitchcock's film Psycho. MOPDTK copies the sound. For instance, John Coltrane's off-mic entrance on "Freddie Freeloader" is faithfully reproduced by Jon Irabagon, as is every other feature of the original. What MOPDTK has done is demanding and esoteric. But it is not jazz and, importantly, they know it.
Perhaps a better accompanying text for this recording would be Tom McCarthy's book Remainder, in which the protagonist spends a million dollar insurance settlement reconstructing and re-enacting a scene from his life. Of course, he fails each time because once a moment has passed, it's gone. Same for a jazz performance as renowned as Kind Of Blues: it is quite impossible to step into the same river twice.
4,5/5 stars
(Mark Corroto, AllAboutJazz)
Состав
Peter Evans - trumpet
Jon Irabagon - alto & tenor saxophones
Ron Stabinsky - piano
Moppa Elliott - bass
Kevin Shea - drums