James Moody & Mark Turner - The Two Tenors [Warner Jams Volume 2]Here's another disc i bought second hand in a shop, really cheap [i think £2], looked good, plus it's got Mark Turner on it, and i know he's good, and i wasn't disappointed.
In some ways this is a jam session, but the tunes seem really well thought out, and it's certainly not a bunch of musicians merely jamming.
The booklet is covered with photographs by Larry Fink, and especially the black & white shots of the five musicians in the inner pages of the booklet are really good indeed.
Most of all i enjoyed tracks 2 & 5, especially track 5 'Alone Together' was very inspiring, a tune by Arthur Schwartz, this happens to be a track featuring Larry Goldings in a Jazz Piano Trio setting, so James Moody and Mark Turner sit this one out, the track starts with a false start!, the Drummer Clarence Penn coming in too late [0:00-0:17], some good humoured laughing over the mistake, and it starts again, and now you can see how doing it right really adds to the intro [0:18-0:27], i'm glad they left the mistake in, the piano has this lopsided jiggy intro, and the drums have this mesmerizing tap tap with the drumsticks [0:23+], with some delicious hard offbeat cracks on the drum at random [0:36, 0:51 & 0:55], Goldings sends the thing swinging [1:07-1:15], but it keeps breaking up/down, and then nicely swinging again and again [1:54-2:03 & 2:12+], what a tease!, it's all over the place, start/stop, Goldings makes it complex and lots of Monkish out of tune notes, Goldings must have two independent brains to work it all out, i really love this disjointed track.
Here's a Jazz Quartet playing 'Alone Together' on YouTube, gives you some idea what it sounds like.
