Bob Belden - Black Dahlia '2001

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Genesis (5:06)
02. In Flight (2:01)
03. Dawn (1:02)
04. City of Angels (6:26)
05. Dreamworld (8:11)
06. Prelude to Love (0:53)
07. Danza dAmore (7:07)
08. Zanzibar (2:15)
09. Black Dahlia (4:35)
10. The Edge of Forever (Last Night at the Hacienda Club) (8:22)
11. 101 North (2:55)
12. Elegy (City Lights, Prayer, Procession & Ascension) (7:59)

Bob Belden became well-known during the 90s as an arranger and producer. Black
Dahlia is the first full-length release of original music to appear under his
name. It is a sweeping, ambitious work, featuring a large ensemble that includes
the very finest jazz improvisers. The project was inspired by the true story of
Elizabeth Short, aka the Black Dahlia, a shadowy character whose grisly murder
in 1947, at age 22, became the subject of novels by James Ellroy and John
Gregory Dunne. The killing, which remains unsolved, continues to captivate the
public imagination and has gained iconic significance in the history of the Los
Angeles underworld of the 30s and 40s. Beldens suite is essentially a tone poem,
a musical portrayal of Elizabeth Shorts life and death. In his self-penned liner
notes, Belden is explicit about his major influences: the Grand Opera tradition
of Puccini, Berg, and Henze, and Jerry Goldsmiths score to the 1974 film
Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski. The operatic influence is clear in
Beldens use of leitmotifs: symbolic and recurring musical gestures such as the
Love Theme, the Death Chords, and the Black Dahlia Interval (a minor third). And
the central musical texture used by Goldsmith in Chinatown -- lonely trumpet
over a bed of strings, piano, and/or harps -- is, in fact, borrowed quite
directly by Belden, on the tracks Genesis and City of Angels.
Although Belden doesnt mention it, one also detects at least a conceptual
similarity between Black Dahlia and Paul Simons ill-fated musical The Capeman.
Both set true stories to music, and both seek to dramatize the misdeeds and
misfortunes of a social outcast. Black Dahlia features a stunningly good band.
Bassist Ira Coleman and drummer Billy Kilson provide the rhythmic foundation.
Kevin Hays, Marc Copland, and Scott Kinsey trade off on piano, and Belden
himself plays tenor on Dreamworld and Elegy. During the course of the program
there are beautiful solo statements from Tim Hagans and Lew Soloff on trumpet,
Joe Lovano on tenor sax, Charles Pillow on English horn, Lawrence Feldman and
Mike Migliore on alto sax, Lou Marini on alto flute, Conrad Herwig on trombone,
and Erik Friedlander on cello. Zach Danzigers bongos provide just the right
Latin touch on several tracks. Two glorious subtleties: Bobby Prevites castanets
on Danza dAmore and David Dysons electric bass cameo, paralleling the melody of
Dreamworld with the woodwinds and brass. In addition to the main soloists, there
are four French horns, bass trombone, tuba, two harps, timpani, 21 violins, four
violas, four cellos, and two double basses. Belden is going for maximum effect,
and at times the music sounds more like a movie soundtrack than a jazz album.
Its very pretty stuff, if a bit dark and heavy, and because of the story aspect,
it demands a beginning to end listen, more so than most albums. The main
attraction for jazz buffs will be the distinctive instrumental voices of the
fine players that Belden hired for the session.~David R. Adler


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