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Now Is Another Time
David Murray
Now Is Another Time
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Latin Music
 
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There's excitement around big bands again, with stellar releases by Andrew Hill and Dave Holland. Here David Murray takes the big band in a different direction, toward the explosive music of Cuba. His first big band outing...  more »

     
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All Artists: David Murray
Title: Now Is Another Time
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Justin Time Records
Release Date: 1/28/2003
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Latin Music
Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Latin Jazz, Latin Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 068944016129

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There's excitement around big bands again, with stellar releases by Andrew Hill and Dave Holland. Here David Murray takes the big band in a different direction, toward the explosive music of Cuba. His first big band outing since 1995, this is a brawling, passionate encounter with the Havana musical community and Cuban rhythms. Accompanied by a handful of U.S. associates--trumpeter Hugh Ragin, trombonist Craig Harris, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett--Murray has immersed himself in the new experience, crafting compositions that are true to his own jazz traditions and the music of the island. The result is a churning, bubbling cauldron of sound. Murray's arrangements build on the energy, using the horn sections to pump out riffs and figures against the polyrhythmic frenzy of the colliding drums, the joyous tumult a springboard to inspired solos. Murray himself often surmounts it all, and is simply one of the most exciting improvisers in jazz, his every note spun with a different inflection, from smear to squawk to convulsive run. There are also inspired contributions from a bevy of Cuban musicians, including altoist German Velasco Urdeliz and trumpeter Alexander Brown Cabrera. While Cuban-U.S. musical encounters grow more numerous, this is a highpoint, harkening back to the incendiary encounters once presided over by Dizzy Gillespie. --Stuart Broomer
 

CD Reviews

El Ritmo Cubano
vaconguero | Petersburg, VA United States | 10/08/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Whew. One of the most profoundly different yet still enjoyable examples of Latin Jazz (if you want to call it that) that I have heard. For me, music can be cerebral and complex, but it needs solid rhythm, and these guys deliver on both ends. Murray pulls an impressive variety of sounds from his sax, from screeching to soothing. The percussionists, including the famous Changuito, are superb, and though I don't know too much about the rest of the group (they're all Cuban), they CLEARLY know what they are about, and are most all solid improvisors with impeccable rhythm (the horns do a good bit of line playing, but there are plenty of solos to go 'round). This album can sound frantic at times, which could be a put-off to some people, but there are also winding lyrical solos (check out Sad Kind of Love--it's truly cathartic); furthermore, to my ear, the intensity slowly builds, climaxes, and lessens in a very organized and tasteful way within each track and then over the album as a whole. I definitely recommend this CD: listening to it claimed the better part of my summer."
Everything he touches turns into GOLD
Rootie Tootie | 08/29/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"No matter if you got here looking for the best Afro-Cuban jazz of recent years or to further explore the work of David Murray, you are at the right place, this is a must. It features the best of David Murray as intepreter and composer as well as very CALIENTE music. Excellent, just like everyhting Murray does."
Correction for "El Ritmo Cubano"
vaconguero | Petersburg, VA United States | 10/08/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Just correcting my previous review: Not all the folks are Cuban--some have played with Murray before (like Craig Harris, Hugh Ragin, and Hamiett Bluiette). I also would like to highlight Piloto, the Cuban set drummer--he has a style that I've never heard anywhere else, and he's GOOD."