Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley
- 艺人
- Monty Alexander
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Telarc
- 发行时间
- 1999年02月14日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Richard S. Ginell
How do you reconcile a harmonically basic, rhythmically upside-down idiom like Bob Marley's reggae with the bop-derived environment in which pianist Monty Alexander usually works? Indeed, Alexander prefers not to choose, gambling audaciously by combining a six-piece Jamaican reggae rhythm section, the Gumption Band, with a three-piece jazz rhythm team. That makes for an interesting tussle; one rhythm section surges in front of the other and vice versa in a constant battle for supremacy (the Gumption Band usually comes off as the more dominant force). Sometimes Monty is limited to just a single right-hand line (&Is This Love?&); a '90s equivalent of those '60s albums where mainstream bopsters restrained themselves trying to cover Top 40 tunes. Not until &Stir It Up,& which sounds a bit like Ahmad Jamal getting into the reggae groove, does Monty at last sound like a melodically free man. &No Woman, No Cry& ignites midway with a good fusion of a pure reggae groove and some harmonically advanced jazz, &So Ja Sah& has a swinging union of the two sections that also respects Marley's unusual rhythmic concept, and there is a hot remix of &Could You Be Loved& as a bonus track (with master drummer Sly Dunbar). Guest trombonist Steve Turre seems right at home with the reggae gait on &Running Away& and gets a straight-ahead bop solo in a slightly frenetic &I Shot the Sheriff.& There isn't any doubt that Alexander loves Marley's music -- listen to his simple, touching Marley elegy &Nesta (He Touched the Sky)& -- yet this attempt to pay homage only comes together in patches.
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