Sahib Shihab - Seeds '1969 / 2023

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Seeds
02. Peter's Waltz
03. Set Up
04. Who'll Buy My Dream
05. Jay Jay
06. Another Samba
07. My Kind'a World
08. Uma Fita De Tres Cores
09. Mauve
10. The Wild Man

  more(“Shihab never withholds long to caress”, Campi says).
Shihab blows the instrument the same way he speaks: without any delay, directly
coming to the point. And he treats it like a voice, not aiming at an
artificially homogeneous sound in all the registers, but at their different
modes of expression. In the high pitches the horn gains a brilliant tenor-like
quality - for instance in PETER’S WALTZ, dedicated to Shihab’s son
Peter, and in Kenny Clarke’s simple drum fills comprising theme JAY-JAY.
In the deep register Shihab produces snotty sounds filling lady’s ears
with horrors like Pan - thus in JAY-JAY and in the boppy blues SET UP .
Shihab’s sense of a scurrilous humor breaks through in SEEDS (which
reminds of the West-African heritage of jazz with its multiple rhythms and its
renunciation of harmonious development - only the eight bars of the bridge base
on a progression of chords): not only does he omit the notorious bombastic chord
by the ensemble after his own final cadenza, he even ends with a minor second
above the keynote. Seems as if Shihab now unrestrictedly conveys to his music
all the experiences and emotions he formerly did not deal with in a musical way.
Shihab the man need not be disturbed so that Shihab the musician may improvise
passionate choruses. It would be unjust, however, to forget the choruses of the
four other musicians for those by the “born leader”. Francy Boland,
taciturn and always introverted: he plays an extrovert, a masculine piano. Even
with spare single note lines he produces a piercing and ringing sound that
hitherto nobody except him has discovered, a bluesy sound bespeaking the very
element of frustration that lies within the title of the trio number
WHO’LL BUY MY DREAM. The unfailing feeling for rhythm the musicians of
the CBBB praise with the arranger Boland, becomes manifest in the piano solo on
SET UP. Francy’s improvisation is rhythmically styled in a Monk-like
manner, and yet no accent could be set differently. Maybe this is the secret of
the Shihab-Combo. “Rhythm is our business”, this credo of Jimmy
Lunceford could be the one of the five musicians as well. Sadi hits his vibes as
dryly as if wanting to bring its ancestors to memory, the wooden chimes of West
Africa’s coastal tribes. To reach the fullest poignancy possible, he
intentionally calms down even the resonance in MY KINDA WORLD. In UMA FITA DE
TRES CORES Jimmy Woode bears out the crispy jazz beat against Sadi’s
Bongos and Klook’s Latin-American percussion all by himself. Moreover -
and that, too, is connected with the school of the Duke who was the first in the
history of jazz to discover the instrument’s potential as a melody
instrument - Woode rips a marvelous counterpoint to the inventions of the other
melody instruments, take for example PETER’S WALTZ. And then there is
Kenny Clarke. Klook. On the entire record he only uses his brushes. Means by
which different drummers only know to bring forward impressionistically blending
noises: He drums a vigorous beat with them, fanciful fills, a solo, melodious
and at once skillfully playing with cross rhythms in JAY-JAY. The “born
leader”, the “outstanding baritone saxophonist of modern jazz”
(Joachim-Ernst Berendt), he could not wish himself different sidemen for this
record overdue since some years.



The Sahib Shihab Quintet - Seeds.rar - 220.0 MB

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