Makoto Kuriya - piano
Piotr Wojtasik - trumpet
Sylwester Ostrowski - tenor saxophone
Essiet Okon Essiet - bass
Newman Taylor Baker - drums
Just Music
P-VINE 24327
By Adam Baruch
This is the debut album by the international quintet co-led by Japanese pianist/composer Makoto Kuriya and Polish saxophonist/composer Sylwester Ostrowski, which also includes Polish trumpeter Piotr Wojtasik and American rhythm section comprising of bassist Essiet Okon Essiet and drummer Newman Taylor Baker. The album presents nine compositions, five of which are originals co-composed by Ostrowski and Wojtasik, two are originals by Kuriya and the remaining two are standards.
The music belongs to the
melodic mainstream variety, with solid compositions, but completely
non-original approach which puts the album somewhere in the proximity of 1950s
or early 1960s American Jazz idiom. Of course these are all highly professional
musicians, who can play really well, but the overall effect of this music is
simply passé.
Personally I find the
phenomenon of European or Japanese musicians trying to imitate American Jazz
sort of pathetic; they will never be able to beat the American Jazz tradition
so they might as well find their own path and take the music elsewhere, which
of course many do, especially the younger ones.
Overall this is very well
played mainstream American-like Jazz, which still has many followers all over
the globe. For such audiences, this album is definitely worth investigating,
although there are thousands of similar recordings out there deserving no less
attention.
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