Time for the Dancers
Russell Malone
This is this quartet’s second album for High Note and the band synergy is clear – it rolls along through different moods like a limo through a changing landscape.
Time for the Dancers
Russell Malone
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This is this quartet’s second album for High Note and the band synergy is clear – it rolls along through different moods like a limo through a changing landscape.
About
With this, his third outing as a leader on HighNote guitar master Russell Malone returns with his talented quartet, featuring the potent pianism of Rick Germanson, the solid underpinnings of Luke Sellick on bass, and drummer-extraordinaire Willie Jones III.
Malone possesses phenomenal technique, a warm luminous tone, an innate sense of swing, and his distinctive chording. The set consists of a wide range of songs including funk, ballads, uptempo hard bop performances and even a pop tune and a TV theme. Malone varies the instrumental textures and tone colours throughout to reveal his considerable inventive melodic art. This recording is further proof that Russell Malone is one of the top guitarists in jazz, here backed by a superb trio of masterful musicians.
Personnel: Russell Malone (guitar), Rick Germanson (piano), Luke Sellick (bass), Willie Jones III (drums)
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
November 2017
This is this quartet’s second album for High Note and the band synergy is clear – it rolls along through different moods like a limo through a changing landscape.
November 2017
Russell Malone has always gone his own way as a guitarist and bandleader, embracing blues, r&b, gospel and pop influences. Most of all, he loves a good melody. With this, his third album for HighNote, Malone continues to take a stand for lyricism and mainstream swing.
