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Keystone Trio - Newklear Music: The Songs Of Sonny Rollins (1997)

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Keystone Trio - Newklear Music: The Songs Of Sonny Rollins (1997)

Keystone Trio - Newklear Music: The Songs Of Sonny Rollins (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 304 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 138 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop, Piano Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Milestone Records (MCD-9270-2)

For this 1997 release, the Keystone Trio focuses its refined elegance on Sonny Rollins the composer. While not principally known as a writer, but rather as a remarkable improviser and interpreter of standards and bop classics, Rollins has written dozens of originals over the decades. Other than "Airegin," none of Rollins' best known pieces, such as "Doxy," "Oleo," "St. Thomas," or "Blue Seven," are presented here. Instead, pianist John Hicks, bassist George Mraz, and drummer Idris Muhammad mainly explore items from the saxophonist's Milestone releases from the '80s and '90s, along with some from mid-'50s Prestige dates. The trio's approach is to draw out the melodic and structural substance of each piece, casting them in a light that has more in common with the grace of the Bill Evans Trio than with Rollins' often challenging and provocative soundscapes…