Post Bop

Album
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My Other Voice

  • Artist

    Mark Sherman

  • Released

    2019

  • Genre

    Jazz

Making music with these incredible musicians helped me articulate my voice on piano. I present to you, and I hope you enjoy — “My Other Voice.”

– Mark Sherman

Powerful Post-Bop blends with a beautiful ballad, Cole Porter’s Ev’rytime We Say Goodbye for an album that aficionados will adore. Sherman’s 18th album as a leader, this time on piano, his “other voice” than his magnificent mallet-work on vibraphone, does not disappoint.

Mark Sherman is one of the global Jazz scene’s preeminent musicians. He has recorded, both as a leader, and as a member of a variety of ensembles, with some of the top artists of his generation, including veterans like bassist Ray Drummond, drummer Carl Allen, and Vincent Herring, who join the quintet to produce a post-Bop sound that will truly be a joy for Jazz fans.

Joining the quintet of chops-commanding veterans is newcomer Nana Sakamoto, on trombone, a discovery of Sherman’s from Japan.

Sherman began his music education on the piano, when his mother started him on the instrument, at age eight. Over the years, he moved onto to drums, percussion and, eventually, the vibraphone. As a percussionist, he’s played gigs ranging from classical concerts with legendary conductors like Bernstein, and Mehta, to the pits of Broadway, to gigs with the modern legends of Jazz, including a duet album with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron, Interplay.

”All along, it was all about the piano,” Sherman insists.

It’s an instrument that he’s never left, really, as he has been teaching students in Jazz at The Juilliard School the fundamentals of the music on piano for years.

“I teach at the piano. I write at the piano, and I simply love to play the piano. With 10 fingers and an 8 octave range available, it gives me a different level and dimension of expression.”

TRACKS

  1. PRIMATIVE REALITY 5:09
  2. JUICY LUCY 7:41
  3. MILESTONES 6:43
  4. ALE 5:20
  5. EV’RYTIME WE SAY GOODBYE 7:07
  6. HINDSIGHT 6:37
  7. DEVOTION’S DANCE 7:32
  8. THE CUP BEARERS 4:58

FEATURING a

MARK SHERMAN piano
VINCENT HERRING alto saxophone RAY DRUMMOND bass
CARL ALLEN drums
NANA SAKAMOTO trombone
DAN CHMIELINSKI bass (tracks 1,4,7)

REVIEWS

“…[T]his session is an example of good, solid bop of a type heard on records too infrequently these days.” – Derek Ansell, Jazz Journal (UK)

 

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High Rollin’

  • Artist

    Mark Sherman

  • Released

    1998

  • Genre

    Jazz

High Rollin’, is Jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and pianist’s adventure into the fusion of live, and electronic music-making. Seven original compositions, and two standards, including a riff on Louis Armstrongs “Wonderful World,” offer Jazz fans amazing music in a snapshot of the post-Bop sound’s experimentation that fused elements of electronic with what was rapidly evolving into the “smooth” Jazz scene.  A chill vibe from one of the world’s top vibraphonists, joined by saxophonists Tim Hegarty andDave Mann, and guitarist Al Orlo.

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Interplay

  • Artist

    Kenny Barron and Mark Sherman

  • Released

    2015

  • Genre

    Jazz

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Tribute

  • Artist

    Tim Hegarty

  • Released

    2014

  • Genre

    Jazz

Saxophonist Tim Hegarty’s “Tribute” largely pays tribute to mentor Jimmy Heath, who also penned four of the album’s ten tracks. Jazz Times hailed its “murderers’ row of a rhythm section“ featuring NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano, and A-List veterans like vibraphonist Mark Sherman, bassist Rufus Reid, and drummer Carl Allen.

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Of One’s Own

  • Artist

    Jeff Holmes

  • Released

    2012

  • Genre

    Jazz

This is Jeff Holmes’ album debut of his quartet, but the veteran musicians joining him, saxophonist Adam Kolker, bassist James Cammack, and drummer Steve Johns are no strangers to great Jazz. Holmes, familiar to many as a member of Vincent Giordano’s Nighthawks, wrote all of the original tracks. Like sherpa, the quartet is going to take you to the heights of the jazz mountain, and show you vistas that are mind-blowing.

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Shapeshifter

  • Artist

    Scott Reeves

  • Released

    2009

  • Genre

    Jazz

The Scott Reeves’ Quintet’s “Shapeshifter,” a live album, recorded at Cecil’s Jazz Club in West Orange, New Jersey, is a vibrant mainstream jazz recording of Reeves’ originals, performed by some of the 21st century’s top jazz artists.

Reeves, a trombonist by trade, reaches for his alto flugelhorn on seven tracks, and pulls out an alto valve trombone on two others. The rest of the quintet are top artists: Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry (Maria Schneider); pianist Jim Ridl; bassist Mike McGuirk; and Andy Watson on drums.

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Comet Ride

  • Artist

    Willie Williams

  • Released

    2007

  • Genre

    Jazz

Saxophonist Willie Williams’ Comet Ride features bassist Gary Wang, and drummer Rudy Walker. AllAboutJazz.com notes: “Williams’ tenor, with lightning speed, dexterity and chops to spare, named [the album] for the roller coaster ride in Hershey Park, Pennsylvania where a much younger Willie Williams experienced his first “Comet” ride.” Climb aboard for an album full of delightful twists and turns.

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Family First

  • Artist

    Mark Sherman

  • Released

    2007

  • Genre

    Jazz

Mark Sherman’s 2007 release of post-Bop to the outer edge of hard-Bop in six originals and four standards with soaring individual solos from leader, and vibraphonist. Sherman and trumpeter and flugelhornist Joe Magnarelli’s interplay takes this album to a new level. Likewise, check out “Lazy Autumn” pianist Allen Farnham’s biggest contribution to the album or Chembo Corniel’s commanding performance on “Wapango.”

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