CD Public - Greg Osby

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - PUBLIC - Greg Osby

-Fabricante :

Blue Note

-Descripcion Original:

Since recording his last live album, the proudly lo-fi Banned in New York (1998), Greg Osby has been a peripatetic stylist, ranging from an all-star session with his mentor Andrew Hill to one with a string quartet to 2003s exceptional set of re-harmonized standards. Recorded at New Yorks Jazz Standard, Public finds the vinegar-toned alto saxophonist again reveling in bandsmanship. Leading a quintet including the awe-inspiring trumpeter Nicholas Payton, he charges three covers and three bracing originals with a sometimes thrilling intensity. With their brisk, off-color unison statements and biting solos, the bop staples Bernies Tune and Shaw Nuff leap from the grooves. Osbys Equalatogram is an ingeniously constructed vehicle for post-bop angles and spatial free-jazz squalls. The loping, Monk-influenced Rising Sign (a reworking of Osbys own Ministrale), shows off the formidable chops of the bands newest member, pianist Megumi Yonezawa. Only the closing Lover Man fails to sizzle as pop singer Joan Osborne doesnt leave much of an imprint. --Lloyd Sachs Public by Greg Osby