Guests: Jerry Weldon (ts) Ron Affif (g) Dave LaLama (p) Tim Givens (b) Joe Ascione Leader (dr)
My Shining Hour / Well / You Needn´t! / Bouncin´ With Bud / Pent Up House / Chelsea Bridge / Get Happy / Moment´s Notice / All Blues / Nobody Else But Me / All My Tomorrows / Eternal Triangle
Dies ist das erste Album von Drummer Joe Ascione unter eigenem Namen. Das Trio mit seinen beiden Gastmusikern Jerry Weldon am Tenorsax und Ron Affif an der Gitarre bietet sauberen Modern Jazz mit manchen Bebop-Anleihen. Elf Standards von Monk zu Arlen bieten nicht nur beste Unterhaltung, sondern auch erstklassige virtuose Musiker, die wissen, was Interpretation heisst.
"This is Joe Ascione´s first outing under his own banner, so that here behind Jerry Weldon´s classic tenor sax, Ron Affif´s aggressively specific (g) Tim Givens´ digitally acrobatic bass and Dr. Dave LaLama´s postgraduate (p) you are hearing what amounts to no less than the beginning of a new time in jazz. And if time, as they say, runs like a river, this collection glides downhill from quick mountain streams to placid ponds to the great ocean, itself." Ed Lowe writes for New York Newsday on jazz and the arts.
