Bruno Hubert Trio – Fire Waltz (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Bruno Hubert Trio – Fire Waltz (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:07 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
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On this recording, Hubert is joined by longtime trio mates James Meger on bass and Joe Poole on drums. They have been playing together regularly for at least seven years. Meger, a Vancouver native and a graduate of the McGill University jazz music program, has been on the Vancouver scene for well over a decade. Extremely versatile, Meger is as comfortable with experimental electronic music, pop, and free jazz as he is with Hubert’s bebop-informed jazz—if one can put Hubert’s music in any category but its own.Joe Poole has perhaps been the most in-demand jazz drummer on the Vancouver scene for some years now. Poole studied with the great Oscar Peterson in his formative years and has played with many jazz greats over the years including Curtis Fuller, Houston Person, Russell Malone, and many others.

Those familiar with Hubert’s repertoire know that he does not compose original works in the strict sense. But his arrangements of standards are anything but familiar. This offering starts with the 1944 Jule Styne classic I Fall In Love Too Easily. Played as a waltz, Hubert introduces the take with an ostinato figure in the left hand which set up Meger to follow this line on bass; Poole joins in with a suitably staccato pattern on the ride cymbal and near-unison rim shots, coloured by splashes of another riveted ride cymbal, and, eventually, a syncopated commentary between snare and bass drum. The rhythmic feel belies the three-beat waltz time signature and sounds more like a Latin tune as Meger, never straying too far from the one-beat, continues to add complimentary conversational lines to spur on Hubert’s lyrical and beguiling inventions.

Tracklist:

1-01. Bruno Hubert Trio – I Fall In Love Too Easily (08:01)
1-02. Bruno Hubert Trio – Golden Earrings (07:58)
1-03. Bruno Hubert Trio – I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face (06:43)
1-04. Bruno Hubert Trio – Con Alma (08:35)
1-05. Bruno Hubert Trio – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (04:47)
1-06. Bruno Hubert Trio – Edda (07:02)
1-07. Bruno Hubert Trio – Fire Waltz (05:49)
1-08. Bruno Hubert Trio – Sincerely Diana (07:14)
1-09. Bruno Hubert Trio – You and the Night and the Music (06:36)
1-10. Bruno Hubert Trio – Sweet’n’Sour (06:19)

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