Donal Fox and David Murray In Session: Vamping With T.T.

Donal Fox and David Murray in Session
Recorded March 24, 1993, Studio B, WGBH-TV, Boston, courtesy WGBH Educational Foundation
Recording Engineer: Tom Pugh
Producer: Calvin A. Lindsay, Jr.

Donal Fox, piano
David Murray, bass clarinet

"Vamping With T.T." by Donal Fox

CD available on Evidence Music, Inc. (ECD 22131)
Executive Producer: Jerry Gordon
Liner Notes: Amiri Baraka

www.evidencemusic.com

Reviews:

"Pianist Fox has an uncanny way of drawing out the best from Murray on tenor sax and bass clarinet. . . . Fox thinks quickly, moves readily between chordal and free frames of reference, and has a sharp improvisational intelligence that might be as rooted in Scriabin as in Tatum. . . . the most apt partnership since Murray's duets with Randy Weston . . . "
-- Norman Weinstein, Boston Phoenix

"Pianist/composer Donal Fox, has an extensive classical background, which contributes a formal breadth to his duo with the ubiquitous tenorman David Murray on Ugly Beauty. He pulls orchestral maneuvers from the piano on 'Hope Scope,' caresses Monk's title song with impressionistic arpeggios and harmonic insinuations, and builds his own 'Vamping with T.T.' on winding chromatic figures (kicked along by a soupcon of stride). Murray counters with some of his most abstract, unconventional playing yet. A stimulating, surprising date."
--Art Lange, Pulse! Magazine

". . . a scintillating set of duos ranging from a poignant version of the Monk title track [Ugly Beauty] to some free jazz vamping and experiments with ostinatos, arranged piano and minimalism."
-- Denver Post

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• Ugly
• Beauty
• Thelonious
• Monk
• Donal
• Fox
• piano
• David
• Murray
• bass
• clarinet
• saxophone
• jazz
• classical
• chamber
• duets

[MajnoonYehudi]

i gave this * * * * * stars. damn decimal machine is only showin' up 4.5