内容紹介
【音質極上。ラファロ、ホープを含むハロルド・ランド4のカナダでのライブ】
クリフォード・ブラウン&マックス・ローチのクインテットで活躍したハロルド・ランドが1958年11月、カナダのバンクーバーにある「The Cellar」を訪れた際のライブ音源です。メンバーがエルモ・ホープ(p)、スコット・ラファロ(b)、レニー・マクブラウン(ds)という顔合わせ。音質は非常によく、正規のライブ録音と比べてもほとんど遜色ありません。(3)のみバンド・テーマのため1分足らずで終わりますが、他の4曲はどれも演奏時間も長く、5曲で約80分とたっぷり収録。全員のソロがしっかり楽しめます。エバンスとの共演で知られるスコット・ラファロ、バド・パウエルの幼友達だったエルモ・ホープのファンにも見逃せません。モダン・ジャズ黄金時代の西海岸にタイムスリップしたような気分を味わえる1枚です。
Album Details
Although he was always a secondary figure when compared to other contemporary tenor saxophonists like Sonny Rollins, Harold Land was nevertheless an excellent player. This opinion is backed by the important groups and musicians that counted on his services. He formed part of outstanding small groups in Los Angeles and made perennial recordings with bassists Red Mitchell and Curtis Counce. Land taped the first Long Play album issued under his own name in 1958, Harold in the Land of Jazz, followed a year later by The Fox. He also began playing with the Gerald Wilson orchestra, and with pianists Hampton Hawes and Carl Perkins. In 1960, he recorded in San Francisco with Thelonious Monk and gained fame in the late sixties for his band with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. Influenced by John Coltrane, Lands sound and style began to change during this period, becoming harder and freer than his early bebop and post Bebop recordings. Issued on the current CD for the first time ever, the live recordings contained here present Harold Land in a splendid but unusual setting. The rhythm section of pianist Elmo Hope, bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Lennie McBrowne wasnt part of his usual group. In fact, the three musicians formed the rhythm section for Sonny Rollins quartet!