Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights - Songs from the Big Book of Love (2015) {Pink Palace PPCD001}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Creative Music / Experiemental / Freestyle Jazz / Drums
Jim Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive” is a great movie. It celebrates a certain vintage lifestyle, in which quality, deliberate slowness, and a love for nostalgia and the luxurious fight against the inevitability of greed and the fast pace of today’s world. However, there is only one weak scene: At the end of the film the two vampires Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) are in Tanger and pass by a club in which the Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan is playing and the two protagonists get lost in the music. In this scene I wished Jarmusch had chosen a more interesting band instead of Hamdan’s rather insipid electro/world-music brew.
A great choice would have been Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights because their music reminds of the lost Tanger of William S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles, of the beat generation, hot jazz clubs, hard bop excesses, an exuberant life style and an atmosphere of anything goes. As a band leader percussionist Zerang, the son of Assyrian parents, is clearly in the tradition of Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers but he also cultivates his Eastern roots. The debut album of his band The Blue Lights includes eight original compositions by him and features the band playing a local club date in Chicago. And they set the house ablaze, no wonder considering that he has gathered Chicago’s top notch players like Mars Williams (sax), Dave Rempis (sax), Josh Berman (cornet) and Kent Kessler (b).
However, the fact that a great deal of the music is notated, does not mean that there is no room for improvisation although you might argue that the old theme/solo/theme/solo pattern is really worn out. But it’s just the opposite! Oriental riffs are used as a foundation to go completely astray (the saxes in “Persian Lips”), fanfare-like tunes meet urban funkiness (“Dancing for Cigarette”) and crazy over-blown sax solos (“To Tu”), syncopated cadences clash into Eastern melodies, free jazz excursions and call-and-response schemes (“Chicago Rub Down”). The brass section is a killer – especially Rempis and Williams kick asses - , Kent Kessler is solid as a rock, and Zerang‘s super-tight, earthy and relaxed strikes, his manic drum rolls, and Middle Eastern grooves keep the diverging elements together. Even the ballad (“I don’t know if you are beautiful tonight”) is so full of warmth you cannot resist. Hardly ever did I have such continuous fun listening to an album.
Personnel:
Mars Williams – Alto Sax (2, 7), Tenor Sax (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8)
Dave Rempis – Alto Sax (1, 3, 4, 6, 8), Tenor Sax (1, 2), Baritone Sax (5, 7)
Joshua Berman – Cornet
Kent Kessler – Contrabass
Michael Zerang – Drums
tracklist:
01. Dancing for Cigarettes 5:54
02. To Tu 5:26
03. Come to the Place of Love (for Sameи) 7:47
04. Bright Lights & Saucy Tights 5:31
05. The Third Pythia of Flin Flon (for Shirka) 7:02
06. Persian Lips 6:41
07. I Don’t Know If You Are Beautiful Tonight 6:14
08. Rub Down 6:51
All compositions by Michael Zerang.
Recorded live in concert at Hungry Brain, Chicago, August 10, 2014 except #3, recorded at Bar De Ville, Chicago, January 28, 2014.
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Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights / Songs from the Big Book of Love
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Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights / Songs from the Big Book of Love
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