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On This Day
Joe Lovano
On This Day
Genres: Jazz, Pop
 
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The Cleveland-born tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano has a big, full-throated sound that you can't learn in school. It only comes from years of gigging and working as a sideman and as a leader; he's released a number of critica...  more »

     
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All Artists: Joe Lovano
Title: On This Day
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Blue Note Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2003
Re-Release Date: 7/8/2003
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Modern Postbebop, Swing Jazz, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 724354327728

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The Cleveland-born tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano has a big, full-throated sound that you can't learn in school. It only comes from years of gigging and working as a sideman and as a leader; he's released a number of critically-acclaimed records and played with a lot of superstars. But if you want to get Joe Lovano "unplugged," this is the CD to get. It his third recorded performance from New York's fabled Village Vanguard jazz club, at it features Lovano fronting a spirited nonet. The nine pieces combine the grand sound of the big band with the improvisational flexibility of a small combo. This group, which recorded on Lovano's studio release, 52nd Street Themes, features Boston's tenor sax phenom George Garzone, trumpeter Barry Ries, pianist John Hicks and drummer Lewis Nash. With Lovano's soulful and silken sax out in front, they breath new, post-bop life into Tadd Dameron's "Focus" and Good Bait," John Coltrane's "After the Rain," and Duke Ellington's lovely ballad, "My Little Brown Book." A florid reading of the pop song "Laura" and the avant-garde-oriented "One This Day," which was based on Coltrane's "Ascension" and composed in memory of the great drum master Billy Higgins, features and intesnse "horn discussion," and shows Joe Lovano's mastery of his instrument and the idiom we call jazz. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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CD Reviews

Great music despite sub-par recording quality
M. Perini | 09/15/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Joe Lovano's latest cd, recorded live at the Village Vanguard has been receiving a lot of press, some of which has to do with the recording quality. Well, let me say that the music on this disc is 5 stars all the way. Great songs, arrangements, and solos. Joe's nonet is a superb band, and if you like Joe Lovano, or "little big bands", get this cd. The sonic quality is not great, yet it is not horrible either. I'd say its different. It sounds a bit like some bootlegs that are recorded in the audience, but only a bit. The sound quality is not as good as most recordings from the Vanguard, includings Joe's previous recordings there. But if you are a fan of Joe Lovano and small big band recordings, I'm pretty sure you will like this cd, and will consider it money well spent."
Beautiful sound!!!!
Ahamefule J. Oluo | 06/24/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I know that I am in the minority but I think this is a beautiful sounding album. There is definitely a place for the "I can hear each and every breath" pristine ECM style recording process but that is not what you actually hear when you see a group live. It sounds to me like the engineer(s) were trying to capture this moment as it actually was, unfiltered and unfooled around with. It is just my opinion but I feel they succeeded masterfully and I wish more records were recorded in this manner."