John Medeski, Matthew Shipp - Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (2006) {Thirsty Ear Recordings}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Piano / Organ
Scotty Hard
initially made his reputation in the rap world, but since 2000 or so
he's been doing at least as many jazz gigs (if not more), contributing
heavily to albums by Sex Mob and Medeski, Martin & Wood. Scotty
Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery is Hard's first jazz release, put
out as part of Thirsty Ear's illustrious Blue Series Continuum. The
album is constructed from performances of an amazing all-star group:
Matthew Shipp and John Medeski on keyboards, free jazz giant William
Parker on bass, and Nasheet Waits on drums, with additional
contributions from DJ Olive and percussionist Mauricio Takara.
Then comes the radical reconstructive surgery. Hard takes those
performances and transforms them, adding drum machines and samples and
using dub techniques and studio production to rework the material into
something that probably couldn't have been performed live, but retains
the essence of the live performance. For a guy with a reputation as a
free player, William Parker sure knows how to work a groove, and he and
Waits set up some muscular beats. Shipp and Medeski are both virtuosos
in their own right, and Hard contrasts them nicely by having them play
different instruments on the songs, generally organ and piano. The
playing is great all the way around, but this isn't an album about
virtuosic solos; it's about groove and atmosphere and it succeeds in
spades. Oddly enough, Hard's modus operandi is laid out in an exerpt
from a medical journal written by "The Company of Barber Surgeons"
(remember "Theodoric of York"?) concerning bodily humors and "foul
vapours" in the curing of the sick. The answer?: "to experiment with new
techniques; to undertake a radical reconstructive surgery." The rest of
the quote fits in nicely with the concept as well. Is this traditional
jazz? No way. Is it jazz? You bet. Thirsty Ear has been releasing some
of the finest examples of this new modern jazz over the last several
years, and Radical Reconstructive Surgery stands up nicely alongside
releases by avant-jazzmen like Matthew Shipp and Craig Taborn and other
entries in the Blue Series Continuum from non-jazzers like Good and Evil
and Spring Heel Jack. This is decidedly adventurous jazz that invites
listeners in and can make them move at the same time. Well done.
Personnel:
John Medeski - organ, Wurlizter, Moog synthesizer, mellotron, clavinet, piano
Matthew Shipp - piano, Wurlitzer, organ
William Parker - bass
Nasheet Waits - drums
DJ Olive - turntables
Mauricio Takara - drums, percussion
Scotty Hard - drum machines, samplers, Optigan, percussion
tracklist:
01 - Primary Humor
02 - Chance Operation
03 - St. Clare's Hospital
04 - Noonday Demon
05 - The General
06 - Eclipse
07 - Apothecary's Cabinet
08 - The Peeler
09 - Anatomy of Melancholy
10 - Round 2
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