| Tutu
CD 888 182 |
to
be released september 97
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Live
in Paris - Duc Des Lombardes
Volume 2
Monty
Waters |
saxophone |
| Larry
Porter |
piano |
| Stafford
James |
bass |
| Ronnie
Burrage |
drums |
| Tom
Nicholas |
percussion |
titles:
NEW YORK CALLING & RHYTHM BURRAGE APARAJITA, THE
LADY FROM THE FAR EAST
ONE FULL MOON NIGHT*
ROAD TO MOROCCO*
DANCING WITH DANIELA*
MONTEVILLE # 2
YOU & ME
JUMP 'N JIVE, STILL ALIVE*
Real Audio - Soundsamples
(title 2):
long
version 445kB
short
version
145 kB
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| JAZZOETRY:
A MÉLANGE OF LOVE, BREAD AND FANTASY
Hardly anybody knows
that Monty Waters is a multimediatalent. His idiom is bebop,
and this not only comes out in his saxophone playing and
in his poems, but also his painting is affected by the same
dialect. He understands bebop to be that which its originators
also mean it to be - Bird, Dizzy and Monk, that is, as a
spring board for their own individual expression and he's
gone on working on this all his life. He's the old spirit,
that tells of the roots of jazz; not an academic performance,
but rather a mélange that comes out of the Blues, jazz basements
and Harlem; since he's been through it all personally, all
the way from Manhattan to L.A., his expression guarantees
for authenticity.
With the populistic
imitations of modern traditionalists, Monty Waters has no
truck. An inventive critic describes Monty's stage presentation
as "jazzoetry", a melting together of jazz and
poesy, in rhymed punch lines about love, life and dreams,
which, put in bebop lingo could be taken as "Ric, Pig
& Panic". This is expressly clear in the duo recordings
with his congenial partner on "talkin' drums"
- alias Tom Nicholas; his percussive spots mesh wonderfully
with Monty's vocalising, in the to and fro of dialogue,
in his - so to speak - answers...
In addition to these,
there are a couple of takes from the legendary Paris sessions
(Monty Waters' Hot House, 'live' in Paris, Vol. One, Tutu
Records CD 888 140). Spurred on by that volcano on drums,
Ronnie Burrage, the old veteran for instance in Montville
# Two, makes the so called wild young 'uns seem passée,
because this "let's go wild" thing comes straight
from Monty's heart making a lot of the next generation seem
old and ailing.
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