Wayne Escoffery – Alone (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:21 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
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In the summer of 2023, saxophonist and composer Wayne Escoffery found himself alone in a way that he’d never quite experienced before. He was away from home, on sabbatical in Europe with a month to himself between tours. A long-term relationship had just ended, and he was confronted with the loss of friendships that he’d once valued. Worst of all, he’d suffered a broken finger that left him unable to play the saxophone for the first time since he’d picked up the horn in high school.“Normally, my coping mechanism would be the saxophone,” Escoffery laments. “But even that wasn’t available to me for about nine weeks, so I just had to be alone in my thoughts.”
He made good use of this alone time, conceptualizing the music that makes up his striking and singular new album, Alone. What emerged from that solitude was an extended mood piece, an album unique in Escoffery’s typically wide-ranging catalogue for its sustained atmosphere of stark melancholy and searching introspection. Due out August 30, 2024, via Smoke Sessions Records, the music is breathtakingly interpreted by an all-star quartet featuring iconic bassist Ron Carter, drummer Carl Allen, and pianist Gerald Clayton.
Tracklist:
1-01. Wayne Escoffery – Moments with You (06:31)
1-02. Wayne Escoffery – Alone (08:07)
1-03. Wayne Escoffery – Rapture (06:44)
1-04. Wayne Escoffery – The Ice Queen (08:15)
1-05. Wayne Escoffery – The Shadow of Your Smile (06:23)
1-06. Wayne Escoffery – Blues for D.P. (06:08)
1-07. Wayne Escoffery – Stella by Starlight (09:03)
1-08. Wayne Escoffery – Since I Fell for You (05:06)
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