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| 3.5 great | Bedex | December 2nd 20 |
I should redo this discog with only the canon albums because this is yet anOTHER label-made album based on recordings from 58. And again you can feel the stylistic difference compared to things from his 60s records. There's an emphasis on repeated hooks as well. But all in all despite not being canon this is quite fun. McCoy's piano is definitely the highlight on 1, in the intro and the rest; the rest of the track is fine and fun as far as late 50s bebop goes but nothing to write home about. This is contrary to 2 where the piano is only one of the strong elements, the track being a dancey bouncy jam that I'd gladly listen to again. 3 ruptures the mood completely with its nice but not fantastic wine jazz undertones (as advertised by the title), and from then on the record becomes kind of erratic in structure. The melody on 4 is hookey I guess but I find the instrumentation doesnt work in quite a lot of places. The intro is especially meh and then after 90 seconds it switches into more conventional - albeit still not great - bebop. Then 5 starts off as city jazz and is quite fine with some hooks, but again, nothing crazy good. 3.55
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| 2.5 average | solrage | October 20th 17 |
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