Artist: Ferenc Németh, Attila László feat. Russell Ferrante & Jimmy Haslip
Album: Bridges Of Souls
Genre: Fusion, Contemporary Jazz
Label: Dreamers Collective
Released: 2014
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Bridge of Souls (06:22)
- Downhill (06:30)
- The Untouchable Number (04:48)
- It's Already That (06:26)
- Sounds of My Heart (05:41)
- Dance (04:50)
- Alone (feat. Charlie Horvath) (04:53)
- Magic City (06:43)
- Little Heart (feat. Lara Bello) (04:48)
- Creep (06:10)
- Missing You (03:38)
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- Personnel:
- Ferenc Németh: drums
- Attila László: guitar
- Russell Ferrante: piano, keyboard
- Jimmy Haslip: bass
- Lara Bello: vocals (7)
- Charlie Horváth: vocals (9)
The music created by this foursome isn't fusion in its most common form, but it's a fusion of sorts. When you hear Haslip's bubbly electric bass soloing over Ferrante's celestial keyboard, you know from whence they've come and where they like to go, but nobody would mistake this for a Yellowjackets record; the surfaces aren't as slick here, and there are earthier elements at play in this music. That's what the co-leaders bring to the project. Laszlo can deliver it in down-and-dirty fashion, but he's also poetic in the way he paints with his guitar. Nemeth, likewise, knows when to barrel ahead and when to play it cool.
Much of the music rides high on the groove(s) and/or shimmers through the speakers, but not everything falls neatly under those generalized headings. Two vocal numbers—the reggae-soul-gospel-jazz of "Alone," complete with guest Charlie Horvath's winning sandpaper-y vocals, and "Little Heart," something of a jazz-inflected art song written and performed by guest singer Lara Bello—stand out from the rest. But in the end, it's not the steady flow of a beat, the beauty of a voice, or the power of a solo that defines this album. It's the coming together of different and distinct personalities to work toward a common end that sums up Bridges Of Souls.