Mike Stern - Echoes and Other Songs (2024)
Mike Stern - Echoes and Other Songs (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 508 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 Mb | Covers included | 01:17:15
Jazz Fusion, Post-Bop | Label: Artistry Music, Mack Avenue Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 508 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 Mb | Covers included | 01:17:15
Jazz Fusion, Post-Bop | Label: Artistry Music, Mack Avenue Records
Legendary guitarist Mike Stern has been celebrated for his versatile playing style since he first hit the scene in the 1970s, transcending genre by performing with Blood, Sweat & Tears, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, The Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Béla Fleck, Yellowjackets and more. With Echoes and Other Songs, Stern brings together an all-star group of musicians (including Chris Potter, Jim Beard, Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez, Richard Bona & Dennis Chambers) for 11 brand-new originals that will captivate and unite guitar and jazz fans of all generations.Tracklist:
Mike Stern - electric guitar (all tracks), backing vocals (track 9)
Chris Potter - tenor saxophone (all tracks except 4, 5, 9)
Jim Beard - acoustic piano (all tracks), keyboards
Christian McBride - electric bass (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8), acoustic bass (tracks 7, 10, 11)
Antonio Sanchez - drums (all tracks except 4, 5, 9)
Leni Stern - ngoni (tracks 1, 5, 8)
Arto Tunçboyacian - percussion (all tracks except 6, 7)
Richard Bona - bass guitar (tracks 4, 5, 9), vocals (tracks 5, 9)
Dennis Chambers - drums (tracks 4, 5, 9)
Bob Franceschini - soprano saxophone (track 5), tenor saxophone (tracks 4, 9)
AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
Echoes and Other Songs is guitarist Mike Stern's debut on Detroit's Mack Avenue label and his first solo leader date since 2017's Trip. In the meantime, his longtime residency at 55 Bar ended when the club became a casualty of the pandemic. Further, keyboardist Jim Beard, his longtime friend and collaborator, played on and produced the album but died months before its release. Stern's roster is loaded with jazz luminaries including saxophonists Chris Potter and Bob Franceschini, bassists Christian McBride and Richard Bona, drummers Antonio Sanchez and Dennis Chambers, and percussionist Arto Tunçboyacian. Leni Stern plays ngoni on three tracks. Stern's compositions range stylistically across straight-ahead bop, fusion, funk, R&B, rock, and more.
Opener "Connections" is introduced by ngoni before Potter's tenor states the lyric. Stern adds airy chords and biting fusion fills supported by Beard, McBride's chunky electric bass, and Sanchez's kit. This quintet appears on all but three cuts here and sounds like a veteran outfit. The guitarist reveals Afro-Latin influences on "Echoes," fingerpicking a syncopated minor-key vamp buoyed by piano, percussion, and bass until Potter enters with the melody. Its middle section embraces funk before returning to the transcendent lyric. McBride and Sanchez introduce "Stuff Happens" with a reggae backbeat before the principals – with Beard on organ – gather them under an umbrella of assonant harmony, syncopated rhythms, and blues. The set contains a pair of hinge tracks. The alternate session band, with Chambers, Bona, and Franceschini, first appear on "I Hope So," a euphoric ballad that reveals the depths of Stern's lyricism. Bona offers his signature (wordless) vocals over Beard's piano and an interwoven meld of Afro-Latin and rock rhythms. They are joined by Leni on "Space Bar," an exercise in syncopated jazz-funk with killer double riffing by the guitarist and Franceschini. "Where's Leo?" (for Leo Genovese) is bonkers as it weds bop, furious fusion, and vanguard jazz to rock pyrotechnics. It's followed by "Gospel Song," arguably the album's most beautiful track. Stern's lovely, hymn-like vamp gives way to a processional from the keys, an upright bass, languid percussion, and brushed drums. Stern goes deep in his emotional solo, dialoging directly with McBride and Beard. Despite the relaxed tempo, it flows from one musical idea to the next, offering resonance amid elegant atmospheric textures. Leni assists the alternate band on "Curtis," a set highlight. Following the ngoni's fingerplucked intro, Stern's rhythmic guitar patterns become circular riffs that channel soul, West African highlife, contemporary jazz, and blues with Beard's piano leading the band behind him. Stern solos several times, joining rock, fusion, and country. He lends his voice, too, preceding Franceschini's honking solo. While "Climate" – with the primary band – melds a loungey, Steely Dan-inspired vamp with Latin rhythms, closer "Could Be" commences as collective improv before mutating first into funky jazz and then space age post-bop with a Monk-esque vamp. Echoes and Other Songs is a towering set of Stern compositions that entwine groove, complex yet accessible harmonies and rhythms, kinetic energy, impeccable taste, and obvious excitement by the musicians.
1. Connections (08:10)
2. Echoes (07:31)
3. Stuff Happens (06:56)
4. Space Bar (06:55)
5. I Hope So (07:06)
6. Where's Leo? (06:53)
7. Gospel Song (04:56)
8. Crumbles (08:13)
9. Curtis (05:31)
10. Climate (07:27)
11. Could Be (07:33)
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Mike Stern / Echoes And Other Songs
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Mike Stern / Echoes And Other Songs
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