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Jaki Byard, The Jaki Byard Experience
Audio CD
Disk ID: 216942
Disk length: 36m 20s (6 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1999
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. JParisian Thoroughfare | 10:08 |
| 2. Hazy Eve | 4:37 |
| 3. Shine on Me | 4:19 |
| 4. Evidence | 4:28 |
| 5. Memories of You | 7:18 |
| 6. Teach me Tonight | 5:25 |
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Review
"Experience" is an apt description of this 1968 monster, more a mystical rendezvous with the Ghosts of Jazz Past, Present, and Future than a mere record album. Pianist Jaki Byard certainly had a kindred spirit in hornman Roland Kirk, another fiercely diverse player who never met a jazz he didn't like--or know how to play. Our journey begins with a 10-minute reading of Bud Powell's "Parisian Thoroughfare" that's more beyond than it is bop. "Hazy Eye" follows, a lovely meditative duet with Byard and bassist Richard Davis, before the quartet (with Alan Dawson on drums and Kirk adding a rare turn on clarinet) reveals the earthy gospel "Shine on Me," taken half-boogie, half-funky. Just as you settle into a groove, a wild, frenzied version of Thelonious Monk's "Evidence" tans your hide as both Byard and Kirk offer whirling, wondrous improvisations. The climax is Eubie Blake's beautiful ballad "Memories of You," a duet for Byard and Kirk that is both stately and stirring. The full quartet waves goodbye with a midtempo "Teach Me Tonight," complete with a nod to Erroll Garner. You can still see the devilish smiles. --Marc Greilsamer
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Tracks: 6, Disk length: 36m 20s
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