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Emmet Cohen: Master Legacy Series, Volume 2

By Mike Jurkovic
February 8, 2018
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Emmet Cohen: Master Legacy Series, Volume 2

Let's not mince words. Everything you want from a great jazz trio recording -electricity, pacing, innovation, dynamic virtuosity and interplay, flights of fancy and passion -are found in great abundance on

Emmet Cohen

piano
b.1990

" data-original-title="" title="">Emmet Cohen's newest Master Legacy Series Volume 2.

Recorded live June, 2017 in Vancouver, B.C., pianist Cohen, featured elder and bassist extraordinaire

Ron Carter

bass
b.1937

" data-original-title="" title="">Ron Carter and drummer

Evan Sherman

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Evan Sherman (who, though in his mid-20's, plays here like an old master) lock in and swing mightily. Cole Porter's "All of You" a delicious opening salvo of rhythm-ning, launches from the gate, setting the tone for the entire run. Speaking of swing, the bold trio re-invents

Tommy Dorsey

trombone
1905 - 1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Tommy Dorsey's big band hit "Opus One" scaling back while charging forth. Three nods to the lyricism of fellow pianist and Carter peer

Cedar Walton

piano
1934 - 2013

" data-original-title="" title="">Cedar Walton follow, with the explosive, rumbling blues "Holy Land" and the wistful romanticism of "Dear Ruth" allowing the players to expose all their creative synergy. Carter's playing here like he was back at Van Gelder's in Hackensack, growling, seductive, rooted to the groove one moment, pirouetting around his young partners the next. Cohen, whose energy, dexterity, and seemingly boundless inventiveness makes him the man to listen for years to come, bounces snatches of Monk to and fro.

Though named for the Jewish prayers of mourning, "Hatzi Kaddish -Intro" and "Hatzi Kaddish" both composed by Cohen and Sherman, are rousingly joyous, highlighting Sherman's sense of groove, atmosphere, and impeccable time keeping. Cohen's desire for jazz generations to mingle and conspire is the driving force behind Master Legacy Series (last year's Volume 1 featured drummer

Jimmy Cobb

drums
1929 - 2020

" data-original-title="" title="">Jimmy Cobb) and certainly on these two tracks the youngsters have taken the torch and run wildly forward with it. Carter's "Light Blue" is given an anthemic reading, as if Cohen and Sherman have have waited their whole lives to partake of this delicate theme alongside its creator. "Ron Carter Speaks" a bass solo that encompasses all of Carter's moods and manners, leads seamlessly into the dancing and elegiac "Joshua" the

Victor Feldman

multi-instrumentalist
1934 - 1987

" data-original-title="" title="">Victor Feldman/

Miles Davis

trumpet
1926 - 1991

" data-original-title="" title="">Miles Davis gem from Seven Steps to Heaven. What a way to open 2018.

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Track Listing

All Of You; Opus One; Hindsight; Holy Land; Dear Ruth; It's About Time; Any Old Time; Hatzi Kaddish Intro; Hatzi Kaddish; Light Bluer; Ron Carter Speaks; Joshua.

Personnel

Emmet Cohen

piano

Emmet Cohen: Piano; Ron Carter: Acoustic Bass; Evan Sherman: Drums

Album information

Title: Master Legacy Series, Volume 2 | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: Cellar Live

https://soundcloud.com/cellarlive/sets/emmet-cohen-masters-legacy-series- volume-2-featuring-ron-carter

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