Jared Gold: Reemergence
Author: Mike Hobart
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Musicians: |
Billy Hart (d) |
Label: |
Strikezone |
Magazine Review Date: |
August/2018 |
Catalogue Number: |
Records 8817 |
RecordDate: |
January 2018 |
Jared Gold's annual releases on the Posi-Tone label established him as a technically advanced organist whose fluent lines and precision voicings come with powerful bass pedal support. He released the last of eight recordings in 2015, so presumably the ‘reemergence’ of the title references the threeyear recording hiatus and a switch to a new label. Gold follows late 1960s organist Larry Young in voicing modal harmonies with a light vibrato, but he uses a broader spectrum of sounds that, while soulful in the bass, veer between church and cheese at the top. This CD features a core trio of long-time associate Dave Stryker on guitar and one-time Jimmy Smith drummer, Billy Hart. Stryker's tough in-style articulation mixes modernism with the blues, Hart's energy adds fire to the mix and the band gel with the relaxed confidence of a working unit. Overall, the band sticks to the organ trio script, but broadens the repertoire with Ornette Coleman's ‘Blues Connotation’, The Beatles waltz ‘She's Leaving Home’ (a bit stodgy) and Stevie Wonder's ‘Lookin’ For Another Pure Love’, featuring guest trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. Pelt's round sound and vibrant solos also enliven the title-track and, half way through the set, add cut to the twisty Gold original ‘One For John A’. The album plays out with a bossa, a great down-home cover of ‘Sweet Sweet Spirit’ and the tasty set rocks out on a modal high with Stryker's ‘Nomad’.

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