Since today is Wednesday and we can't request it is perhaps time to dig another suggestion. In light of all the preconception that Lonesome Crow, one of my favourite Krautrock alba, managed to raise, today I'll go with something somewhat less polemic.
I think I started listening to John Abercrombie even before I went into Prog. Finding that the Moon has a bunch of his records in its playlist was one of the things that made me stay around. One of my favourite records by John is Night from 1984:
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=12231
The line up is composed by the laureated trio with John, Jack DeJohnette and Jan Hammer plus Michael Brecker on the tenor sax. A typical of John's LP without a bass, where you don't exactly miss one. This LP is very tight, without any quality or style variations that makes it a very solid work. The absence of bass, Hammer's synth and the incursions through folk and pop makes it also a rather non-conventional piece. It is just a series of really good tracks that slowly arouses you to a masterly conclusion at the B side. The track I most appreciate is “Believe You Me”, although “For On One” seems to be the most lasting track, featuring in John's live set for years to come.
The thing is that this LP is somewhat under-rated by prog fans. So the question is: is this a great fusion LP – worthy of making it into the Moon's list – or “just” a great jazz album?
09-08-2009, 03:10 AM
Linear Mode
