Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Music / Post No Bills The hard-bop side of salsa sideman Brian Lynch
Posted by Peter Margasak on 03.07.12 at 03:45 PM
Last year Lynch proved himself a student of hard bop on Unsung Heroes (Hollistic MusicWorks), an album celebrating jazz's overlooked horn greats, including Tommy Turrentine, Louis Smith, Howard McGhee, Joe Gordon, Idrees Sulieman, and Ira Sullivan. Lynch composed a few original themes dedicated to some of his heroes, but the trumpet heavies he's honoring wrote most of them. His playing is just as lyrical as always, especially on the ballads, and he brings an equally characteristic fierceness and rhythmic sophistication to the upbeat material. Below you can check out the bustling opener, a Gordon composition called "Terra Firma Irma." Some of the music from the album—the first of a projected three volumes—could of course turn up in Lynch's sets this weekend, where he leads a quartet with pianist Mark Davis, bassist Jeff Hamann (both from Milwaukee), and drummer Anthony Lee Jr. Given his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz, though, you're just as likely to hear anything from the genre's long history.
Brian Lynch, "Terra Firma Irma"
photo: Nick Ruechel
Today's playlist:
Doris Monteiro, Vento Soprando (East West, Brazil)
Heliocentrics, Fallen Angels: The Singles Collection (Now-Again)
Andrzej Kurylewicz Quintet, Go Right (Polskie Nagrania)
Chris Connor, Chris (Bethlehem)
Emmylou Harris, Hard Bargain (Nonesuch)
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