White & Blue [Import]

Natsuki Tamura | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 16, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Challenge
• ASIN: B00004SVJI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #825,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Eloquence Becoming, July 4, 2000

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Jerry D'Souza (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White & Blue (Audio CD)

When it comes to playing the trumpet, Natsuki Tamura shows not only a spirited sense of adventure through his feel for the abstract, but the instinct to play lines that turn on distinct melodies. In tandem, they put him in the firmament of trumpeters who essay the unexpected. Tamura has released "Song For Jyaki" a solo album and has also appeared on "How Many", a duo outing with his wife Satoko Fujii as well as on "Jo" and "Double Take" with the Satoko Fujii Orchestra. Here he has drummer/percussionists Jim Black and Aaron Alexander on five songs apiece. Tamura is sparse on the first two tracks, Black unobtrusive on the first comes out with a thick rhythm layer on the latter. Then come the smears and the filigrees of growl, the percussion lightly rattling the beat. It seems that Tamura is in search of a groove. He comes into it on the next track. Black sets the pulse on bells, traps and shakers for Tamura to use his voice to scat, cry out and sing! Further down the road the going gets distinctly melodic. "White And Blue 7" (all the tunes have the same title distinguished by the numbers 1 to 10) is more mainstream. Alexander sets a funky beat up front with Tamura taking long slithering lines, that have a folkloric air, across. He does shift tempo, not to do so would be out of his ken. Tamura probes and dissects, cartwheels over a maze of sound, turns from the atonal to the melodic in one swift shift, ever keeping the edge of invention pulsing. Through it all the music has a constant flow, even the silences add to the eloquence.