{"id":900,"date":"2009-03-11T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=900"},"modified":"2009-03-11T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:47:07","slug":"900-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/900-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews – Dave Burrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: Nate Dorward<\/span>
\nSource: Exclaim<\/p>\n

Link to this article<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave Burrell\u2019s first disc for High Two was Expansion, featuring the Full Blown Trio, his group with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille; the music ran the gamut from sonic abstraction to Irving Berlin nostalgia. His new disc, Momentum, is credited to the DB3, a new trio based on the rhythm section of bassist Michael Formanek and David S. Ware-associated drummer Guillermo E. Brown. The sound is more groove-based than on the earlier album, drawing together dark, stealthy swing and battered free-funk to create sticky webs of three-way interplay. A reprise of \u201cCoup D\u2019Etat\u201d from the earlier album provides a useful point of comparison, the new version strutting along insouciantly in the manner of Don Pullen\u2019s latter-day classic \u201cRandom Thoughts.\u201d Momentum connects the dots between the trancelike post-bop of Mal Waldron, Thirsty Ear\u2019s hip-hop-meets-jazz experiments and the perverse grandeur of Ennio Morricone\u2019s soundtracks (several tracks here were written to accompany a silent film by African-American director Oscar Micheaux). Burrell remains one of jazz\u2019s true originals, capable of beguiling you with a sprightly passage of stride piano before knocking you over with a keyboard-pummelling washout. And while Momentum may be one of his less fiery outings, its dark intensity still puts virtually every contemporary jazz piano recording in the shade.<\/p>\n

How did the DB3 come about?<\/em>
\nI first heard Guillermo with his group Beat Kids; they were using a computer and a poet and it was very hip-hop-oriented. Then I played with him in William Parker\u2019s Curtis Mayfield Project and I heard another side of him. I was introduced to Michael at An Die Musik by a friend and we started working in Philly doing duets.<\/p>\n

How did you become interested in mixing free playing and earlier kinds of jazz? <\/em>
\nWhen I moved to New York in 1965 all the gigs I was handed were avant-garde gigs, but the Archie Shepp groups, for example, were quoting Ellington. And I always felt that I needed more bebop\/post-bop knowledge. Over the next 20 years I kept learning pieces, sometimes out of curiosity, other times because they were assigned to me. I was on the NPR Jelly Roll Morton centennial with Dick Hyman and Wynton Marsalis; I realised afterwards it had changed my feeling and technique for the better and I wanted to really get those pieces mastered. I like to mix things up; if I have to be screaming all the time it becomes very unpleasant. As I\u2019ve aged I\u2019ve found it a lot easier to see the music as one. Even popular music like hip-hop \u2014 the improvisational process is one and the same.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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