Brad Mehldau (Blindfold Test) – (9-21-00): Kenny Kirkland, “Ana Maria,” KENNY KIRKLAND (GRP, 1991) [Andy Gonzalez, bass; Jerry Gonzalez, congas; Steve Berrios, drums; Wayne Shorter, composer] I love the composition, but I can’t pick out which one it is. The shape of the melody sounds familiar. Is it a Wayne tune? I love the way the piano player states the melody, nice and rhapsodically through the bar-line, with a nice texture building up. During the blowing the piano player has a nice, crisp technique in the right hand which I always enjoy hearing. The kind of crispness I associate with Wynton Kelly, a really articulate thing which is nice in the double-time stuff. I thought it could have been maybe a chorus shorter, because after a while you hear certain melodic shapes repeating themselves over and over again. As a group performance, I felt like there was a piano player, then there was this percussion thing that was reacting with the piano a little rhythmically in the double-time stuff, and the bass and drums were sort of in the background. It could have been the mix. I have no clue who it would be. 4 stars. [AFTER] Kenny Kirkland is another one I haven’t gotten to. I kind of missed him. I was so involved in my own listening pattern in the early ’90s and late ’80s. I was really into guys like Sonny Clark and Mal Waldron — a lot of compers. I loved Mal Waldron, and the stuff he did with Steve Lacy; the minimalism he uses appealed to me. https://youtube/watch?v=h4DM9rgo16c
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:11:39 +0000
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