Track length: | 5:54 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | EMI Feist Catalog Inc. |
Composer: | Harold Adamson |
ISRC: | DEB331125401 |
Track length: | 6:37 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Abjohn Music |
Composer: | John Abercrombie |
ISRC: | DEB331125402 |
Track length: | 7:55 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | EMI Miller Catalog, Inc. |
Abjohn Music | |
Composer: | Vincent Youmans |
John Abercrombie | |
ISRC: | DEB331125403 |
Track length: | 6:34 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Jazz Horn Music Corp. |
Composer: | Miles Davis |
ISRC: | DEB331125404 |
Track length: | 5:57 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Abjohn Music |
Composer: | John Abercrombie |
ISRC: | DEB331125405 |
Track length: | 6:11 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | M.J.Q. Music Inc. |
Composer: | Ornette Coleman |
ISRC: | DEB331125406 |
Track length: | 9:12 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Jowcol Music Inc. |
Composer: | John Coltrane |
ISRC: | DEB331125407 |
Track length: | 6:26 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Folkways Music Publishers Inc. |
Composer: | Bill Evans |
ISRC: | DEB331125408 |
Track length: | 6:25 |
Artist: | John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Drew Gress & Joey Baron |
Performer: | Joey Baron |
Drew Gress | |
Joe Lovano | |
John Abercrombie | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Second Floor Music |
Composer: | Sergio Mihanovich |
ISRC: | DEB331125409 |
“Within A Song” celebrates the spirit of discovery that illuminated the jazz of the 1960s, as John Abercrombie declares his musical loyalties in a quartet album that pays tribute to a range of early influences including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall. “This was the music that spoke to me. When I heard it, it was like finding a new home.” The group assembled especially for this production, recorded at New York’s Avatar Studios in September 2011 features tenorist Joe Lovano as the optimal partner for Abercrombie. Together they mine deep feelings from these modern jazz classics.
John Abercrombie guitar
Joe Lovano tenor saxophone
Drew Gress double-bass
Joey Baron drums
Where Are You
Easy Reader
Within A Song / Without A Song
Flamenco Sketches
Nick Of Time
Blues Connotation
Wise One
Interplay
Sometime Ago
Recorded September 2011
ECM 2254
Abercrombie describes himself as “a late bloomer” vis-à-vis “Kind of Blue”: “It was released in ’59 but I didn’t hear it until 1962, when I was a student in Boston. I was completely captured by Miles’s playing on that album, the simplicity and beauty of it. Of course, the album is meanwhile so well-known that certain tunes have been practically worn out with repetition. But I thought it was still possible to play something fresh on the chord progressions of ‘Flamenco Sketches’ and create our own melodies.”
Coltrane’s “Crescent”, was also the subject of intense scrutiny in Abercrombie’s Boston years. “I had loved the way Coltrane played ballads, but ‘Crescent’ seemed to be a centrepiece for the new music he was working on: the new tunes, with the long rubato intros, of which ‘Wise One’ was a great example. Music of real beauty.”
Abercrombie also adds compositions of his own to the programme. “Easy Reader”, an amiable Abercrombie waltz, makes a nod to Dennis Hop...