Ethan Iverson - Technically Acceptable - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The effects of the bebop revolution in jazz music are still being felt and explored. Of the half dozen true pioneers of the movement, pianist Bud Powell has remained somewhat in the shadows, although his work has become a major touchstone for true devotees of the music and a principal influence for most of jazz's most explorative pianists. // Powell's brilliant original compositions are essential, infinitely listenable but also strangely tricky. Unlike Monk, Parker and Gillespie, the composer neglected to perform them much after their original recordings, so they never became a part of the jazz lingua franca. Pianist and historian Ethan Iverson provides a fantastic validation of Powell's compositional genius on his new recording, Bud Powell In The 21st Century, a reworking of a number of Powell's pieces for big band. Album Tracks 1. Bud Powell in the 21st Century I. Choral 2. Bud Powell in the 21st Century II. Continuity 3. Celia 4. Tempus Fugit 5. Five Simple Spells I. Chorale 6. Bouncing with Bud 7. Five Simple Spells II. Waltz 8. Wail 9. Five Simple Spells III. Chorale 10. Dance of the Infidels 11. Five Simple Spells V. Moderato 12. 52nd Street Theme 13. Five Simple Spells V. Ballad 14. I'll Keep Loving You 15. Nobile Paradiso 16. Un Poco Loco

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Pianist McCoy Tyner was an acknowledged force of nature. On the aptly named Expansions, Tyner fronts a remarkable band consisting of Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Gary Bartz, Ron Carter, Herbie Lewis, and Freddie Waits. Standouts in a program of four Tyner originals and one standard include the masterpiece InchPeresinaInch and the opening track InchVision.Inch Blue Note Tone Poet Series features all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging. Produced by Joe Harley. Mastered by Kevin Gray. Album Tracks 1. Vision 2. Song of Happiness 3. Smitty's Place 4. Peresina 5. I Thought I'd Let You Know

Saxophonist Lee Konitz began his career in the wake of Charlie Parker but he became arguably the only saxophonist to offer an alternative to Bird's overwhelming influence at the time. It is not surprising then that free-thinking and improvising Konitz would gravitate to the post-modern sensibilities of Ethan Iverson, best known as the pianist in the Bad Plus and a composer of extremely wide range and versatility. Together they offer a wildly creative set list where past and present combine to teeter on the edge of the future. Album Tracks 1. Blueberry Ice Cream [Take 2] [Take] 2. Try a Little Tenderness 3. It's You [Tempo Complex] 4. It's You 5. What's New 6. 317 East 32nd 7. Body and Soul 8. Blueberry Hill 9. A Distant Bell 10. Bats 11. Mr. Bumi 12. My New Lovers All Seem So Tame 13. My Old Flame 14. Blueberry Ice Cream [Take 1] [Take]