In His Own Sweet Way: A Tribute to Dave Brubeck
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You might ask: why a tribute to Dave Brubeck on John Zorn's killer-pedigree, Japanaese Avant imprint? The answer is anyone's guess, since In His Own Sweet Way falls outside the scope of Zorn's Jewish-composer series on Tzadik (which includes the stellar two-CD Burt Bacharach homage). Listening to the collection's 14 tracks, the "why" is altogether irrelevant. Brubeck purists will cringe from the opening bars of Dave Slusser's electronics-laden "Blue Shadows in the Street" onward, except for Bill Frisell's poetic acoustic guitar take on "Summer Song," Medeski Martin & Wood's swinging "Tokyo Traffic," and cellist Erik Friedlander's lyric reading of "Winter Ballad." But anyone familiar with Brubeck's own searching music--especially the stuff of the 24 Classic Original Recordings, the Octet, and virtually all the strange rhythmic studies--will find this whole affair thrilling, if in a sometimes skewered way. The Ruins doing "Blue Rondo a la Turk" create a rockish juggernaut; Dave Douglas's collage of his own multi-instrumental playing on "Nomad" rings true to the tune's title; and Eyvind Kang's electronic, beat-rich "Calcutta Blues" is utterly poignant when the viola is steering the tune. Michael Blake's Slowpoke makes an elongated swamp thing out of "Sixth Sense," and Joey Baron does a fantastically melodic Joe Morello with bassist Tony Scherr on "Three to Get Ready." As anyone who knows Zorn (or any other musician on the CD) would expect, this tribute is all over the map. So was Brubeck in his heyday; it's all in the same spirit. --Andrew Bartlett
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