Artist: Ben Powell
Album: New Jazz Standards Vol. 6 - The Music of Carl Saunders
Genre: Post-Bop, Cool Jazz
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2023
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
1. Just a Samba 06:01
2. Main Squeeze 05:40
3. Solicitude 05:59
4. Blues for Dexter Gordon 05:19
5. African Dreams 06:44
6. In Simple Terms 03:59
7. Ricocheting 03:14
8. I Can Dig It 04:48
9. Not a Sonata 04:49
10. Good Vibes Blues 03:50
11. Latin Tendencies 05:06
12. Sacred Secret 06:11
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Personnel:
Ben Powell: violin, viola
Christian Jacob: piano;
Kevin Axt: bass;
Peter Erskine: drums
Playing violin and viola, Ben Powell gives tribute to the recently departed swinging trumpeter Carl Saunders with vibrant reads of his compositions. He’s teamed up with the stellar Christian Jacob/p, Kevin Axt/b and Peter Erskine/dr many times overdubbing the two strings to create a rich texture a la Stephane Grappelli, as on the warm Just A Samba” and “Latin Tendencies”.There’s an elegance to pieces such as “”Solicitude” and Powell’s strings bounce for joy on the upbeat “Richeting”. Erskine adds an exotic rumble to “African Dreams” and Axt brings in a nifty feel to “Main Squeeze”. A cheerful tribute.