曲目リスト

1. Hambone
2. Olvidados
3. Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm
4. Prelude to a Kiss
5. Girl from Ipanema
6. Hambone [Live]

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #352244 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 2003-03-03
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Import, from UK

From Amazon.com
Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp was an essential voice in the revolutionary jazz of the 1960s, creating a music that insistently linked art and social issues. He was also a musician who fused the past and present in jazz, leapfrogging over bebop to develop a sound that combined the expressive breathiness of Ben Webster with the new vocabulary of free jazz. Those qualities are much in evidence in these 1965 sessions. The principal band here is a sextet, and it brings a primal force to Shepp's charging, complex, multidimensional compositions. But within this potent brew, individual voices distinguish themselves. Altoist Marion Brown's lines always invoke the blues, while trumpeter Ted Curson, a veteran of Charles Mingus's bands, provides a sense of detached perspective. The riffing horns create a backdrop for some of Shepp's most volatile orations on "Hambone" and "Los Olvidados" as his tenor seems to shout, shriek, strut, and cajole with a life of its own. A live septet version of "Hambone" is even more turbulent than the studio take. The rest of the CD heads off in a variety of directions. Duke Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss" is recast with some fresh dissonance. Taking his initial cues from Webster, Shepp goes on to turn the ballad into something very much his own, though still Ellingtonian in spirit. His arrangement of "Girl from Ipanema" adds unlikely fire to the Jobim tune, while "Malcolm," a poem inspired by the assassination of Malcolm X, has Shepp's voice and tenor accompanied by just bass and drums. While these diversions might now seem forced or melodramatic, Fire Music is a varied CD that retains much of its original power. --Stuart Broomer

Album Details
Japanese 24 Bit/96KHz remastered reissue of 1965 album originally issued on Impulse!, packaged in a limited edition miniature gatefold LP sleeve. 2001.

Album Description
24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

カスタマーレビュー

既にシェップの音楽が好きという人に是非！！
　シェップの「フォア・フォー・トレーン」に続くインパルス第２作。１曲目の「ハンボーン」は、熱くなったかを思えば落ち着き、落ち着いたかと思えば熱くなる急緩急の曲展開がクール。４管の敢えてルーズなテーマの提示に続き、印象的なリフが出てくるが、これが執拗に繰り返されることで非常事態を思わせる緊迫感が漂う。アブストラクトなトランペット・ソロ、中間部のゆったりとしたリズムで聞かせるザラついたアルト、急テンポに戻っての高音に挑戦するササクレ立ったテナーと、全体にシェップ流の格好良さが全開！

　２曲目「ロス・オルビダドス」も同じく急緩急の曲構成。中間部のマリオン・ブラウンのアルトはもっと長く聴きたい。これぞシェップというポエトリー・リーディングの３曲目。デュー・エリントンの４曲目。そして５曲目は、しっかり定速ビートを刻むリズムセクションと、脱力感があるのに熱いというシェップらしいソロとの対比が最高にポップな「イパネマの娘」！　まったく聞き込むほどにアーチー・シェップの魅力が伝わってくるアルバムだ。