Artist: Joe Morello
Album: Joe Morello
Genre: Cool, Hard Bop
Label: Bluebird
Released: 1989
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Shortnin' Bread (Trad.) - 2:10
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Trad.) - 6:07
- Brother Jack (Trad.) - 2:58
- Every Time We Say Goodbye (Porter) - 3:06
- Just in Time (Comden-Green-Styne) - 4:10
- It's Easy (Albam) - 4:13
- Shimwa (Morello) - 2:54
- Summertime (Heyward-Gershwin) - 4:03
- A Little Bit of Blues (Albam) - 4:49
- It's About Time (Albam) - 5:10
- Every Time (Martin-Blane) - 2:53
- Mother Time (Woods) - 4:05
- Time After Time (Styne-Cahn) - 3:54
- My Time Is Your Time (Little-Dance) - 4:23
- Sounds of the Loop (Brubeck) - 6:30
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In 1961, Joe Morello, drummer with the Dave Brubeck Quartet for the past six years (with six more years to go), received an opportunity to lead his own album. It's About Time featured ten songs with the word "time" in their title. Of these, five of the six quintet selections (starring Phil Woods and a young Gary Burton) and two of the four other songs (which has the quintet augmented by a brass section) are on this, along with a totally unreleased big band session from the following year. A powerful drummer with impressive technique, Morello is also a master of subtlety and, although an important part of this set, does not dominate the music. With Manny Albam contributing the arrangements, It's About Time was a happy surprise, a hard-driving set of swinging music.
Review by Scott Yanow