Horace Parlan-Us Three-Remastered-CD-FLAC-2014-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Horace Parlan
     Title   | Us Three
     Genre   | Jazz                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 40:39
     Label   | Pickwick Group                       Store   | 2014
     Catalog | 715482                               Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 429 kbps                             Size    | 132.90 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Us Three                                                    4:32
     02. I Want To Be Loved                                          4:49
     03. Come Rain Or Come Shine                                     6:23
     04. Wadin'                                                      5:52
     05. The Lady Is A Tramp                                         7:09
     06. Walkin'                                                     7:06
     07. Return Engagement                                           4:48
 Notes  
     Born 1931 in 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Horace Parlan played
     piano from an early age, his first professional work being in R&B
     bands during the early and mid-50s. In 1957 he joined Charles Mingus
     in New York, later playing with Lou Donaldson, Booker Ervin, Eddie
     Lockjaw Davis, Johnny Griffin, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and others. In
     the early 70s he settled in Denmark, playing with local and visiting
     musicians including Dexter Gordon, Archie Shepp and Michal Urbaniak.
     As a result of contracting polio as a child, Parlan suffered
     limitations in the use of his right hand; to compensate, he
     developed a powerful left hand and evolved a distinctive style in
     which echoes of bop and the blues blend comfortably and to great
     effect.
     On this recording made in 1960 during his tenure with Lou Donaldson,
     Parlan is situated nicely alongside bassist George Tucker and
     drummer Al Harewood. The trio had its own gig on Sundays at Minton's
     in Harlem, and had established a repertoire and reputation for being
     able to lay down both hard bop and soul-jazz stylings with equal
     verve (and yeah, that jazz/hip-hop group from the 1990s was named
     after this disc). The proceedings here are straight-ahead with some
     cool soul-jazz touches. Parlan's "Wadin'" moves the off-minor key of
     "Wade In The Water" and funkifies the rhythm, paraphrasing and
     improvising as the rhythm section struts it out.
     On the title track, there is a gorgeous lilt in his playing that
     corresponds to a behind-the-beat walk by Tucker that makes Harewood
     slip and shimmy constantly on the cymbals with his brushes. There
     and on "I Want To Be Loved" as well as "Return Engagement" (another
     Parlan original), something else starts to creep into his playing:
     the spacy, spare feel of Ahmad Jamal, who Parlan cited as a
     contemporary influence. The economy of touch, which stands in stark
     contrast to the hard bop he played with Donaldson and the energetic
     music he played with Mingus, is in some ways more complex
     harmonically, and more emotionally satisfying. This is a fine effort
     from an underappreciated trio.

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