Don Braden - Gentle Storm (2008, High Note)
Don Braden - Gentle Storm
Genre: Hard Bop| 1CD | EAC-FLAC seperate tracks (CUE+LOG) | CompleteCovers | 361 MB
2008 recording & release | Publisher: High Note Records HCD 7186
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Genre: Hard Bop| 1CD | EAC-FLAC seperate tracks (CUE+LOG) | CompleteCovers | 361 MB
2008 recording & release | Publisher: High Note Records HCD 7186
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Performers:
Don Braden (tenor saxophone & alto flute)
Joris Teepe (double bass)
George Colligan (piano)
Cecil Brooks III (drums)
Tracklist:
1. (00:06:00) Secret Love
2. (00:06:24) Gentle Storm
3. (00:06:21) Never Can Say Goodbye
4. (00:04:22) What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
5. (00:07:58) This Masquerade
6. (00:04:52) The Hunter
7. (00:07:54) Willow Weep For Me
8. (00:05:48) Two Of A Kind
9. (00:02:58) My Foolish Heart
10. (00:05:37) Speed Ball
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EAC extraction logfile from 19. June 2009, 22:32
Don Braden / Gentle Storm
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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8 | 43:51.41 | 5:48.10 | 197366 | 223475
9 | 49:39.51 | 2:57.53 | 223476 | 236803
10 | 52:37.29 | 5:37.02 | 236804 | 262080
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Recording Information
recorded in January & March 2008 in New Jersey
released in 2008
Highnote Records
HCD 7186
Review:
Don Braden has come a long way since his days at Harvard, where he studied engineering along with playing in the university's jazz band. Over two decades into his career in jazz at the time of these recording sessions, the tenor saxophonist is very much at the top of his game. Joined by pianist George Colligan, bassist Joris Teepe and drummer Cecil Brooks III, who have all worked together on a number of occasions, Braden assembles a terrific program.
He recasts the standard "Secret Love" as a turbulent post-bop vehicle, with Colligan showing shades of McCoy Tyner. Braden's laconic, blues-drenched setting of another standard, "Willow Weep For Me," features some of his most heartfelt playing of the date. Braden offers a punchy take of Lee Morgan's hard bop masterpiece, "Speedball." Not many artists could take a hit from the pop group The Jackson Five and turn it into meaningful jazz, but Braden's bluesy treatment of "Never Can Say Goodbye," in a mid-tempo groove, works perfectly. Leon Russell's "This Masquerade" has been tackled by jazz players with mixed success; the tenorist's punchy, soulful arrangement makes it one of the better interpretations. Braden switches to alto flute for a warm rendition of "My Foolish Heart," accompanied solely by Teepe. The leader's originals are just as valuable. "Gentle Storm" is a low key, lyrical bossa nova, while "The Hunter" is an intricate duet with Teepe. (Ken Dryden for allaboutjazz.com)
After the hip left-turn that was 2006's Workin' – a live soul-jazz organ trio date with B-3 hotshot Kyle Koehler and longtime drummer Cecil Brooks III – Gentle Storm is a return to the studio and Don Braden's working quartet. With Brooks, pianist George Colligan, and bassist Joris Teepe, the saxophonist offers a deeply satisfying program of originals and covers. The language here is the same one that listeners first encountered in the 1980s when he began with the late Betty Carter and Wynton Marsalis, but it's a deeper, richer, far more elegant and sophisticated dialect now. Braden is a master improviser and arranger. His strategy in creating this date was to focus on "contemporary standards," and he doesn't mean Radiohead. The covers here are of tunes from the classic American songbook, such as "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Willow Weep for Me," that have been resurrected in recent years – the former expertly by Charlie Haden's Quartet West – and newer tunes that have become "immortal" by means of their popularity over the last 30 years or so. One of the more stunning examples is this band's reading of Leon Russell's "This Masquerade," the vehicle tune for George Benson's meteoric rise to stardom in 1976. Braden's version is nothing like Benson's; its romantic sultriness is more a tinge here. Instead, he adds a gloriously soulful post-bop kind of swing, with finger-popping solos by Colligan and himself – the walking bassline by Teepe is sheer perfection. The deep soul in Russell's bridge is accented here repetitively. Another nugget that has been done a lot in the late 20th and early 21st century is the Ned Washington/Victor Young number "My Foolish Heart." Singers have recorded it mostly. (Kurt Elling's version stands out as one of the best.) But Braden turns it into a deeply romantic and contemplative duet for flute and bass. Its lyric is complemented by the strident yet nearly solo bassline by Teepe. Another highlight – on an album full of them – is the reading of Lee Morgan's "Speed Ball." Braden's intuitive tenor takes that melody and makes it swagger and strut, before getting knotty in his extrapolations of it in the solo. Aside from these righteous covers, Braden's compositions are the watermarks on the recording. The title cut begins quietly, full of shadow and mist, but opens up almost immediately with his tenor solo. Brooks' hi-hat shimmer and the beautiful voicings in the upper middle register of Colligan's piano accent both the romance and the implied danger, and add tension and release. The other duet here is an original called "The Hunter." The solo by Teepe is notable for its swinging cool that contrasts sharply with Braden's dense note clusters. That said, the melody would have been perfect in a noir film from the 1950s. In all, Gentle Storm is solid, top to bottom. Braden is a highly original soloist who possesses not only technical chops that are redolent of his generation, but also the deep soul that comes from the two preceding it. His compositions hold their weight against classic tunes, and his arrangements are full of welcome surprises and delight. This is a real watermark for the saxophonist and his quartet. (Thom Yurek for allmusic.com