Stefon Harris & Blackout, Evolution - 1h 17m 20s

Tracks & Durations

1. Nothing Personal	5:54
2. For Him, For Her	6:20
3. Until	6:21
4. Red-Bone Netti-Bone	7:47
5. A Touch of Grace	5:48
6. Summertime	7:17
7. Blackout	7:28
8. The Lost Ones	6:07
9. King Tut's Strut	6:36
10. Message To Mankind	5:15
11. Montara	4:51
12. Daten-CD	7:28

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Review

Established jazz artists like vibraphonist Stefon Harris hold it on faith that their fans--and maybe some critics, too--will follow them when they gravitate toward the commercial side of the tracks with pop-informed albums. Still, even taking into account the need to reach a broader audience at a time when instrumental jazz has fallen out of favor, Evolution seems like a step backward, not forward. As contemporary jazz--if not Contemporary Jazz--goes, this album is a cut above. Harris has a great ear for melody, a gift for intoxicating, offbeat arrangements, and a knack for sublimating influences ranging from funk to fusion. (He is abetted in the latter style by Marc Cary, who often sounds like Return to Forever-era Chick Corea on electric piano.) But even if some of the performances get under your skin with repeated listening--a cover of Sting's ballad "Until" casts a sneaky spell--too much of the album is bland and predictable. While it's nice to hear Harris return from the rarified heights of his Grand Unification Theory suite and play with a working band again, he's capable of more evolutionary sounds than these. --Lloyd Sachs

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Evolution

Tracks: 11 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 7m 19s (-11m 59s)

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