I have decided that my thirty day challenge will be to listen to one CD a day. As a musician you would think this would be quite easy, but as it turns out it's not, I just don't set aside enough time for dedicated listening anymore. To make this a little bit more of a challenge I have set up some rules. 1. There can be no distractions while listening to the disc-that means I can not listen while driving or doing stuff around the house. 2. I must listen to the disc all the way through, no breaks-this might mean a bit more planning but it can be done. I have a lot of music that I could definitely be more familiar with, so this is going to be a great 30 days!! oh yah, and 3. I'm going to write a short review of each disc.
My first disc is Eric Alexander: Man with a Horn
This album was given to me by my good friend Jerrold Dubyk, if I remember correctly he went through a pretty big Eric Alexander phase and thought I might like this one. I do, it has a nice blend of standards and originals and features Eric in a quartet and with Jim Rotondi (trumpet); Steve Davis (trombone) in a sextet. Eric plays with a big sound and plays a lot of Dexter vocabulary, definitely coming out of the bop-hard bop era. For my tastes there could be more interaction between the rhythm section and the soloists but the album definitely swings and is filled with some great language!
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