Invisible Hand

Review Alto saxophonist Greg Osby's recent string of records for Blue Note - Art Forum, Further Ado, Zero, and Banned in New York - have got critics and fans championing him as traditional jazz's most envelope-pushing soloist and conceptualist. His new record, The Invisible Hand, finds Osby teaming up with two musicians who received similar praise back in the early 1960s, pianist Andrew Hill and guitarist Jim Hall. Osby has worked with both musicians in the past, recording on Hill's Eternal Spirit (Blue Note) and on Hall's By Arrangement (Telarc), among others. Several tunes, including "Sanctus," were written by Hall. "Jim wanted a Johnny Hodges-like interpretation," Osby says of "Sanctus," "but I couldn't go that far because I'm not into bending and scooping my notes like that. That's highly stylized and personalized. I think it would be patronizing for me to do it. I just tried to do justice to the song because it's so beautiful, a through-composed and arranged composition with a definite theme and development and motives. He wrote the melody based on the way he thinks I play - which flatters me. It's custom-made and I hope I satisfied him with my interpretation." --- JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc. -- From Jazziz
ASIN: B000042OQY
VSKU: GBV.B000042OQY.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Osby, Greg
Binding: Audio cd
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