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Emmet Cohen Featuring Jimmy Cobb: Masters Legacy Series, Volume 1

By Edward Blanco
February 24, 2017
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Emmet Cohen Featuring Jimmy Cobb: Masters Legacy Series, Volume 1

Young pianist Emmet Cohen has a reverence for the history of jazz and a deep abiding yearning to preserve the music of the masters and to this end, Cohen developed the concept of a Masters Legacy Series intended to be a collection of recordings and interviews with various living jazz icons who began their careers fifty or sixty-years-ago. Volume one celebrates and documents the music of

Jimmy Cobb

drums
1929 - 2020

" data-original-title="" title="">Jimmy Cobb, arguably one of the finest drum masters of our time, and is the center piece in the inaugural installment of the project.

Recorded live at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City, the standard piano trio features bassist

Yasushi Nakamura

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Yasushi Nakamura and guest appearance from alto saxophonist

Godwin Louis

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Godwin Louis on two tracks. The pianist draws out Cobb convincing him to touch on his past works with

Miles Davis

trumpet
1926 - 1991

" data-original-title="" title="">Miles Davis with whom he began playing back in 1957 and "When I fall In Love" was one of those beautiful standards reprised here. Also, re-imagined in this live set are "If This Isn't Love," previously performed with

Cannonball Adderley

saxophone
1928 - 1975

" data-original-title="" title="">Cannonball Adderley, and "On the Trail" and "Hard Times" where he backed up the great

Joe Henderson

saxophone
1937 - 2001

" data-original-title="" title="">Joe Henderson and

David "Fathead" Newman

saxophone, tenor
1933 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">David "Fathead" Newman respectively.

Not only does this first-in-the series recording, bring out the finesse play of an established legend, it illuminates the compositional talents and gifted play of a master-in-the-making as evidenced in the performance and dynamic music of such originals like "Folk Song," "Mr. Robinson," and "Concerto for Cobb."

An excellent musical portrait of a living legend, Masters Legacy Series, Volume 1 is a thoroughly enchanting musical statement from pianist Emmet Cohen, Jimmy Cobb and the rest of the crew leaving one with much anticipation and expectation for Volume 2, well done!

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Track Listing

On The Trail; Tin Tin Deo; Two Bass Hit; When I Fall In Love; Folk Song; Interlude; Flamingo; If This Isn't Love;Mr. Robinson; Hard Times; Concerto For Cobb.

Personnel

Emmet Cohen

piano

Emmet Cohen: piano; Jimmy Cobb: drums; Yasushi Nakamura: bass; Godwin Louis: alto saxophone (5, 10).

Album information

Title: Masters Legacy Series, Volume 1 | Year Released: 2017 | Record Label: Cellar Live

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