Joe Lovano Us Five
Live at The Village Vanguard
New York, NY USA
2011-01-12
As broadcast live over 88.3 WBGO-FM Newark, NJ USA
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Posted January 2011.
Setlist:
01 - Intro by Josh Jackson (1:50)
02 - Yardbird Suite (16:43)
03 - Moose The Mooche (13:54)
04 - Lover Man (R. Ramirez) (12:57)
05 - Koko (5:14)
06 - Donna Lee (M. Davis) (9:39)
07 - Barbados (14:20)
08 - Outro by Josh Jackson (1:20)
compositions by Charlie Parker unless otherwise indicated
Total Running Time: 76:01
Personnel:
Joe Lovano - saxophones
James Weidman - piano
Esperanza Spalding - bass
Otis Brown III - drums
Matt Wilson - drums
Live at the Village Vanguard broadcast info:
from WBGO-FM and NPR music
David Tallacksen - mixing
Michaels Downes, Michael McGoff, Garrett Nichols - production assistants
Lara Pellegrinelli - web chat moderator
Patrick Jarenwattananon - web producer
Thurston Briscoe (WBGO) Ana Grunman (NPR Music) - executive producers
Lorraine Gordon - proprietor of The Village Vanguard
The Village Vanguard info:
http://villagevanguard.com/
Joe Lovano info:
http://www.joelovano.com/ (official site)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lovano (wiki entry)
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NPR summary:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/14/132682252/
joe-lovano-us-five-live-at-the-village-vanguard?ft=1&f=10002
January 12, 2011
How do you play somebody else's songs and still sound like yourself?
It's a central challenge of jazz — so often an art of interpretation —
and it's especially difficult to answer with Charlie Parker's compositions.
dense and virtuosic, they often sound as if they originated in his
distinctive style of improvising.
But the saxophonist Joe Lovano has given it a shot. His current working
band, the loose double-drummer unit Us Five, has issued Bird Songs, a new
record of tunes from the Charlie Parker songbook. And it sounds very little
like the way Parker played his music. The Joe Lovano Us Five played
selections from that record in a live WBGO/NPR Music broadcast and online
webcast from the Village Vanguard on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 9 p.m. ET.
Now a few years old, Us Five has enjoyed a lot of time on the road to
develop its sonic identity. Lovano, a monster player in all directions,
is the central focus on tenor saxophone and other strange saxes. But he
swims amid the interplay of drummers Otis Brown III and Francisco Mela
(replaced on this gig by Matt Wilson), plus the additional lean muscle of
pianist James Weidman and bassist Esperanza Spalding. And their collective
take on Charlie Parker is a sort of 21st-century expressionism. It's Bird
re-painted with broad strokes — Bird as a point of departure for a personal
vision — and it's got a churning engine behind it.
Lovano was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was a tenor
saxophonist. He eventually took the lessons of the Cleveland clubs to
Berklee College of Music, and then New York City. Lovano quickly found his
way into everything between organ trios with Dr. Lonnie Smith and Brother
Jack McDuff and big bands led by Woody Herman or Mel Lewis. He counts
guitarists Bill Frisell and John Scofield as peers, collaborators and
friends; he's one of the musicians of their generation to reach
international stardom. Bird Songs is his 22nd record for Blue Note Records
alone.
Lovano has long been in the regular rotation at the Village Vanguard; he
once played in the Monday-night house jazz orchestra, and he's even made
two albums there under his own name. In fact, he played in the long-running
trio with Frisell and Paul Motian in one of the early editions of this
Live at the Village Vanguard series. As for Us Five, it's already spent a
few weeks at the Vanguard in recent years; for this residency, the group
took the stage with some new additions to the repertoire.
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