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Angel City Quartet - Stellar Moments (2010)
The music contained in Stellar Moments flows like a movie soundtrack as it is sequenced much like a suite. The first three compositions are from Fielder's own pen. From the opening bars of the title cut, you can tell that this is not your father's jazz! The shifting 7/4-4/4 composition is a most exciting 4:30 minutes of jazz! It flows into the trance-like The Quickening where Fielder makes his only appearance on alto conjuring up Bird meeting Trane in an impassioned solo. The loose interplay of the rhythm section during Smith's solo is sublime. Next is the elegant Patricia's Flow, a 7/4 ballad where Fielder introduces his tenor. Next up is an intelligent and swinging rendition of the Joe Henderson classic, Punjab followed by the sprightly, danceable Fielder bossa original, Escapade With Ese, which incidentally has an affectuous melody. Wayne Shorter's Yes And No is certainly a standout composition that should see quite a bit of airplay. Fielder's re-arrangement gives it a Maiden Voyage rhythm which gives this tune a definite contemporary flavor. The standard The Night Has A Thousand Eyes is given a straight down the middle straight-ahead jazz treatment with White displaying some deft brush work. Fielder's sensuous writing is displayed on Mulu, a 6/8 Latin tune that again features White. The closer is Thelonius Monk's I Mean You, where Markus opens the soloing with an incredible arco solo.
Available at iTunes and www.dalefielder.com/recordings
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DFQ~Dale Fielder Quartet - Plays The Music Of Pepper Adams (2007)
In a 10 tune set that lasts for a generous hour and eleven plus minutes, Fielder has chosen seven Pepper Adams compositions that were personal favorites of Pepper Adams. They were among Adams' last and were what he considered his best work, just before his death in 1986 at the age of 55. The seven compositions were culled from Adams' Reflectory, The Master and Adams Effect sessions. Fielder included the standard, Baubles, Bangles and Beads, because they are also associated with Adams and recorded on his very first album in 1957. However the sleepers of the entire CD may very well be Fielder's 2 originals, Frugal Apathy, a very interesting 6/8 Afro-Cuban composition that certainly sets the baritone sax in new territory; and the complex closer, Dimensions, where upon listening to how hard Fielder and Getz can swing, one realizes the power of the element of swing in jazz. Combined with a touch of innovation, it can be a really beautiful thing. Here Fielder swings mightily and creatively in the lower register of the baritone. This solo alone certainly makes the case for Fielder being among jazz's current top baritone saxophonists.
DALE FIELDER TRIBUTE QUINTET
Nolan Shaheed - trumpet
Dale Fielder - baritone sax
Jane Getz - piano
Trevor Ware - bass
Don Littleton - drums
DFQ~Dale Fielder Quartet
_Rosalee & Alvas Performance Gallery Apr 17, 2010
DFQ~DALE FIELDER QUARTET
Dale Fielder - tenor & baritone sax
Bill Markus - bass
Dale Fielder
3078 Raymond Avenue
Altadena, CA 91001
Tel: 626-375-5337
Email: dvfielder_gmail.com
Website: www.dalefielder.com
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