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Jason Moran
- Record Label: Blue Note
- Release Date: Sep 16, 2014
- Summary: The jazz pianist worked with Meshell Ndegeocello and Don Was on a tribute album to Fats Waller after Moran had been commissioned to create one as part of the Harlem Stage Gatehouse Jazz Shrines series.
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- Record Label: Blue Note
- Genre(s): Jazz, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz
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Sep 16, 2014Some Waller devotees will recoil, but this is a respectful tribute from a remarkable modern-music mind.
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Sep 16, 2014This set manages to be reverent to Waller's original recordings, but since facsimile was never the goal, it also manages to create a completely new veneer for them, and the end result is a marvelous tribute that still retains its own shape and coherency.
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Sep 16, 2014His performance is a respectful but contemporary nod.
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Sep 26, 2014Mostly, this project is a revelation and a thrill. It succeeds in making something old/new into something newer/new.
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MojoDec 17, 2014Moran builds on the foundation of the stride of king's eclectic, joint-jumping oeuvre. [Jan 2015, p.94]
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Sep 16, 2014Fats Waller never sounded like this, but he sounds more alive than ever.
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Jan 4, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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