A TRIBUTE TO WAYNE..Hass Blachman: The Shortlist

Tenor saxist Thomas Hass gets together with drummer Thomas Blachman to lead a team with pianist Artur Turnik and bassist Thomas Fonnesbaek in tribute to the last performing jazz legend, Wayne Shorter. A wide spectrum of Shorter compositions are represented here, including his Blue Note Years (“Infant Eyes” and time with Miles Davis (“Water Babies” , “Footprints”, “Nefertiti”). It almost doesn’t seem to matter what the song is, as the deliveries seem all and almost too much the same. Hass’ tone is bone dry languid and gasping, albeit lyrical, and the pulse for almost all of the tunes are slowly throbbing, with tenor subtones on “Vonetta”, a soft fog on “Wildflowers” and abstract tones on “Advance Cadaverous”. Blachman coaxes things along with his cymbals, most notably on “Prince of Darkness”, but the overall mood is like taking in the subconscious of Shorter’s musical mind. Charcoal pastels.

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