Track Listings (7) - Disc #1| All Artists: Greg Osby Title: Public Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: EMI Release Date: 8/2/2004 Album Type: Import Genres: Jazz, Special Interest Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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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 200... more » |
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Amazon.com 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 2003's exceptional set of re-harmonized standards. Recorded at New York's 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 "Bernie's Tune" and "Shaw Nuff" leap from the grooves. Osby's "Equalatogram" is an ingeniously constructed vehicle for post-bop angles and spatial free-jazz squalls. The loping, Monk-influenced "Rising Sign" (a reworking of Osby's own "Ministrale"), shows off the formidable chops of the band's newest member, pianist Megumi Yonezawa. Only the closing "Lover Man" fails to sizzle as pop singer Joan Osborne doesn't leave much of an imprint. --Lloyd Sachs Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsBack to the future bop reflections | Staunton, VA USA | 06/25/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "This scintillating set finally presents Osby at his ensorcelling best. "Visitation" is sublime and "Summertime" (forever overdone) for once receives the modern reexamination that alone makes it listenable. But then the bop flag wavers offer that fly by the seat of the pants effect that one remembers from yesteryear when Bird and Diz et. al. reordered the musical paradigm; daring is beautiful. It will be argued that all original and beautiful music is daring but the point here is that Osby, like Bird or Monk or Trane, has a demanding muse that will brook no compromise of taste or fear of the indeterminate possibilities for song.Listen to the young pianist Megumi Yonezawa who channels Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor with his ear attuned to a time yet to come. His performance here is a revelation of lyrical dissonance bent to the imperative of swing. I am only sorry I was not at the Jazz Standard the nights these recordings were made. My enthusiastic affirmation of these performances would have been clearly audible over the closeted din heard here."Lover Man"? I love Osby's ironic romanticism and Osborne's open voiced sincerity.Should you buy it? What kind of question is that?This is high performance art, utterly contemporary, muscular in its sophistication, and impervious to the effete nonsense that presently parades itself as jazz." LAND OF OSBY stljazzguy | St. Louis, MO United States | 06/04/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "If you're into inventive, lively jazz, PUBLIC is essential. Osby has seldom sounded better, and his band is with him every note of the way. As for Osborne, she may not be a jazz singer, but her take on LOVER MAN is way cool." Great Live Set Saxophone Sam | 11/09/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Excellent live recording featuring some of the best young players in jazz today. One correction to the other reviews: Megumi Yonezawa is a she. Hope we hear more from her soon."
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