Seasoned Wood

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Seasoned Wood
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Studio album by Cedar Walton
Released July 15, 2008
Recorded February 1, 2008
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length51:49
Label HighNote
HCD 7185
Producer Don Sickler
Cedar Walton chronology
One Flight Down
(2006) One Flight Down2006		Seasoned Wood
(2008)		 Voices Deep Within
(2009) Voices Deep Within2009

Seasoned Wood is an album by pianist Cedar Walton which was recorded in 2008 and released on the Highnote label. [1]

Cedar Walton American hard bop jazz pianist

Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr. was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards, including "Mosaic", "Bolivia", "Holy Land", "Mode for Joe" and "Fantasy in D".

Contents

Reception

Allmusic reviewed the album stating "At 74, Walton is as promising and as dizzying a bandleader as ever. His command of the hard bop and post-bop languages and his abilities to reinterpret well-known standards authoritatively are all remarkable... In sum, Seasoned Wood is a true and exceptional highlight in Walton's career". [2] All About Jazz observed "The title Seasoned Wood may successfully riff on the artist's name and the artistry he brings to the occasion, but as anyone with a fireplace knows, seasoned wood burns hotter and better than regular wood. Indeed, Cedar Walton does so here". [3] JazzTimes called it "primarily a take-no-prisoners quintet date". [4]

<i>All About Jazz</i> comprehensive American website for jazz enthusiasts and professionals, based in Philadelphia

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, Jazz Near You, about local concerts and events.

JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Davidson Sabin (1928–2018) as a newsletter called Radio Free Jazz. Sabine founded Radio Free Jazz to complement his Washington, D.C. record store that he founded in 1962. As a newsletter, it informed consumers of the latest jazz releases and provided jazz broadcasters with news and backstories related to playlists.

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Track listing

All compositions by Cedar Walton except as indicated

  1. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:24
  2. "Clockwise" - 7:17
  3. "Longravity" (Jimmy Heath) - 5:58
  4. "When Love Is New" - 6:04
  5. "Hindsight" - 7:13
  6. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) - 5:39
  7. "Plexus" - 6:02
  8. "John's Blues" - 7:12

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Flugelhorn Brass musical instrument

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument that is usually pitched in B♭ but occasionally found in C. It resembles a trumpet, and the tube has the same length but a wider, conical bore. A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from a traditional English valveless bugle, with the first version sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modeled.

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Cedar Walton discography accessed February 23, 2015
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T., Allmusic Review, accessed February 23, 2015
  3. 1 2 Payne, D., All About Jazz Review, November 27, 2008
  4. ↑ Conrad, T., JazzTimes Review, November 2008
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