Captain of the Deep

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Captain of the Deep
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Live album by
Denis Charles
ReleasedMarch 26, 1998
RecordedMay 9, 1991
VenueDe Effenaar Cultural Centre, Eindhoven
Genre Jazz
Length72:39
Label Eremite
Producer Michael Ehlers
Denis Charles chronology
Queen Mary
(1990)		Captain of the Deep
(1998)		A Scream for Charles Tyler
(1992)

Captain of the Deep is an album by the American jazz drummer Denis Charles, which was recorded live in 1991 at the Zuid-Nederlands Jazz Festival and released in 1998 on the Eremite label. [1]

Contents

The album was issued to the public on the day Charles died. [2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The album was listed as Cadence Magazine's reviewers' choice best recording, and also appeared in the JazzIz critics list of top ten recordings for 1998. [5]

In his review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy wrote, "With a sound often approximating the work of early Ornette Coleman, the two horns spurt attractively dissonant themes, after which the four players turn out repeatedly fascinating solos and interactive lines." [3]

Amiri Baraka called Charles's solos "hip, self-contained, quirky links and carriers of the whole," and noted that "behind Ayler-blunt melodies, straight-ahead timbre, the unique daring simplicity of Charles's rhythmic motive force, Deep has lovely moments." [6]

Track listing

  1. "We Don't" (Traditional) - 14:04
  2. "Mota" (Breedlove) - 13:37
  3. "Round About" (Breedlove / Charles / DeJoode / Moondoc) - 15:38
  4. "Jamaj's" (de Joode) - 9:40
  5. "Rob" (Breedlove) - 13:35
  6. "Tobie Continyou" (de Joode) - 6:05

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Denis Charles Captain of the Deep". Eremite.
  2. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (April 12, 1998). "Denis Charles, 64, Drummer Who Gave Jazz Caribbean Lilt". The New York Times. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Loewy, Steve. Captain of the Deep: Denis Charles at AllMusic . Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 242. ISBN   978-0141034010.
  5. ↑ Griggs, Steve (August 2016). "Nathan Breedlove: Recluse on the Loose". Earshot Jazz. Vol. 32, no. 8. p. 7.
  6. ↑ Baraka, Amiri (2009). Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music. University of California Press. p. 377.
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