Tim Ries, Chris Potter, Kálmán Oláh, John Patitucci & Billy Drummond - Live at Smalls (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 68:33 minutes | 452 MB
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Cellar Live, Official Digital Download
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 68:33 minutes | 452 MB
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Cellar Live, Official Digital Download
On Live at Smalls, the 52-year-old Ries leads an acoustic quintet and splits time between tenor and soprano saxophones. He’s put himself in closer contact with the jazz tradition, but still treats the genre as a tool rather than a domain. The first three tracks are Ries originals, ranging from swinging postbop (“A Summer to Remember”) to straight-eighths progressivism (“The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon”) to Metheny-esque folk resplendency (“New View”). The remaining two tracks are rooted in Western classical: a Ries arrangement of Franz Schubert’s lieder masterwork, “Death and the Maiden,” and a fleeting solo piano finale by Kalman Olah, “Prelude to Bach Cello Suite.”