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Artist: Derek Bailey
Album: Standards [Tzadik, 2007]
Label: Tzadik
Year: 2007
Genre: Jazz
RIAA Radar Status: SAFE
Encoder: iTunes v10.2.2
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Codec: LAME MP3
Avg Bit Rate: 320 kbps
Posted by: ZGASPEN
Description / Review:
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Track Listing
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[01/07] Nothing New (8:29) 320 kbps 19.59 MB
[02/07] Frankly My Dear I Don’t Give A Damn (9:39) 320 kbps 22.27 MB
[03/07] When Your Liver Has Gone (7:37) 320 kbps 17.59 MB
[04/07] Please Send Me Sweet Chariot (11:02) 320 kbps 25.42 MB
[05/07] Don’t Talk About Me (4:26) 320 kbps 10.30 MB
[06/07] Pentup Serenade (6:41) 320 kbps 15.48 MB
[07/07] Head (5:08) 320 kbps 11.92 MB
Total number of files: 7
Total size of files: 122.61 MB
Total playing time: 53:02
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Album info
While I thoroughly enjoyed DB’s “Ballads” earlier on the same label, this second set eluded me somehow until recently. And without a doubt, even a post-passing release proves to be among his best.
Boomkat:
Standards serves as a companion piece to Bailey’s earlier Tzadik release, Ballads, in fact this set of recordings dates to just two months prior to the Ballads sessions, and so should really be regarded as a prequel of sorts, taking the form of lengthier, more abstract takes, more in keeping with the familiar musical language of Bailey’s improvisations. It’s only after spending some time with these works that the format of a ‘Standard’ reveals itself. Beautifully recorded and performed with the utmost elegance and fluency on Bailey’s part, these pieces are certainly more obviously lyrical and more in-keeping with conventional jazz harmonics than almost anything else in the guitarist’s back-catalogue (Ballads itself being the notable exception of course), with particularly heartbreaking work being put into ‘When Your Liver Has Gone’ and the gorgeous coda of ‘Don’t Talk About Me. It really is an epiphany hearing Bailey playing like this, especially on this particular album where you can hear within the space of a single piece how Bailey makes a transition from his more difficult, more familiar idiom into the language of jazz traditionalism. Wonderful.