Chamber Music Of The Beat Jazz, by Beat Jazz Combo

Chamber Music Of The Beat Jazz

by Beat Jazz Combo

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1.	1 - Second-Hand Rhumba 09:10	buy track
2.	2 - I Get A Kickin' From You 03:44	buy track
3.	3 - None of Us 02:23	buy track
4.	4 - Damnation Trauma 09:07	buy track
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Ahmad Jamal was one of the great stylists of jazz. Too often overlooked in favour of the greats, Bird, Louis, Ellington, his influence on Miles Davis gave the world one of the trumpeter's most copied styles. Jamal's breakthrough album, 'Chamber Music of the New Jazz' was both mellow and spritely in turn - and for a few brief years, Miles made that his signature.

Not that we're trying to put this in the same category. Besides, Jamal's chamber music was for the 'new jazz' of 1955, and this is chamber music for the 'beat jazz' nearly seventy years later: a music for those beat down by the trials of a glorious new century!

And besides the titular nod, a colour template to match the Argo original and some quirky tune titles to clearly indicate a different starting position, there's not a lot else that the two albums share in common. So its a new sort of chamber music - not polished, not classically textured and not grounded in stylistic brilliance. It's chamber music, but chamber music that has been kicked around the block a few times, had its pockets emptied and its soul dragged into the gutter.

- Wilton Mobley

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released January 31, 2022

Farouk Al Farouk - finger snaps, clarinet
Pablo Chalado - flute, harmonica
Gravesend Fats - tenor ukulele, electric ukulele, banjolele
Alfie Cooke - bass guitar
Big Blood - conga, bongos, cajon, coconut shells

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