Judgment Day Vol. 2

Rashied Ali | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 11, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Survival Records
• ASIN: B000KB7MD2
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #584,357 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

RASHIED ALI Judgement Day, Vol. 1 & 2 (Survival) For the past 20 years Rashied Ali has been operating like an Art Blakey figure in terms of discovering and nurturing new talent. His current working quintet is another cross-generational affair featuring veterans Greg Murphy (piano) and Joris Teepe (bass) and two new firebrands in Lawrence Clark on tenor sax and Jumaane Smith on trumpet. Together this tightly knit group swings in fairly conventional postbop fashion on rarely covered tunes like Frank Lowe s Sidewalks in Motion, Jaco Pastorius uptempo blazer Dania, Wayne Shorter s The Big Push and James Blood Ulmer s M.O. Teepe, a powerful, deep-toned bassist in the Paul Chambers tradition, contributes the moving ballad You re Reading My Mind, while saxophonist Clark, who blows heroically throughout these two discs, offers the exhilarating title track, a modal workout with distinctly Middle Eastern touches that has pianist Murphy dipping deeply into his McCoy Tyner bag. Other highlights in these two energized sets include Murphy s burning Skane s Refrain and Smith s frantically swinging Yesterday (J-Man) Tomorrow, along with dynamic readings of Billy Strayhorn s Lush Life, Thelonious Monk s Round Midnight and Don Cherry s Multi-Culti. Though this band rarely plays outside of New York City, this is one of the more potent working quintets in jazz today. -Bill Milkowski --Drum Beat From The May 2006 Issue Of JazzTimes

Product Description

One of the most underrated drummers to emerge from the turbulently exploratory 1960s, for the past 20 years Rashied Ali has been operating like an Art Blakey figure in terms of discovering and nurturing new talent.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard Bop from the master of the Avant-garde, November 4, 2007

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Charles Coutts (Aberdeen, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Judgment Day Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

The Rashied Ali Quintet has departed its usual 'free jazz' territory to serve-up some of the most exciting hard bop music that I've heard in years. The drummer is surrounded by an exceptional ensemble with brilliant solos supplied by Lawrence Clark on tenor and Jummaane Smith, trumpet. The surge of the music and the creativity of the solos reminds me of some of the best offerings that came from the famous Art Blakey's star-studded line-ups.
A great album and highly recommended.
Charles Coutts