![]() Unless you're listening on headphones or in a quiet room with very good speakers, the rhythmic thread of the bassline can easily get lost in the mix, leaving Scott's syncopated comping sounding disjointed.īut it doesn't happen very often, and the overall effect of this album is one of new light being shed on an aging but beautiful art collection. These three musicians, all of whom are part of the back-to-bop youth movement and all of whom have made names for themselves as session players and fledgling bandleaders, approach the tunes with a combination of reverence and iconoclastic innovation - how often do you think you'll hear 'Red Cross' as a bass solo or 'Chasin' the Bird' as a trumpet/bass duet? This approach has its limitations, of course as revealing as Hargrove's solo take on 'Dewey Square' is, sometimes the weight of rhythmic responsibility weighs too heavily on McBride's shoulders during the trio numbers, and the groove suffers. ![]() ![]() On this unusual album, Roy Hargrove (trumpet, flugelhorn), Christian McBride (bass) and Stephen Scott (piano) pay homage to the father of bebop with a generous set of (mostly) Charlie Parker compositions performed in trio, duet and solo arrangements. Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself as one of this generation's premier players in jazz and beyond. ![]() ![]() Artist: Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Stephen Scott Trio Title Of Album: Parker's Mood (1995) Year Of Release: 1995 Label(Catalog#): Verve 314 527 907-2. ![]()
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