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Jon Hammond:
Hammond's Bolero
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HBF 0103 |
| recorded |
2003 in New York/USA
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| online distribution |
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| Jon Hammond |
Hammond organ, accordion |
| Ronnie Smith |
drums |
| Alex Budman |
sax |
| Joe Berger |
guitar |
01: Hammond’s Bolero
02: Jennifer’s Song
03: Cannonball
04: Soon I Will Be Free
05: Thing In C Minor
06: Cosmo Lane
07: Remembering Stanley
08: Six Year Itch
09: F.P. Blues
10: Czechoslovakian Salsa Song
11: Train Song
12: 9/11 Tribute
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Jon has been long time coming with his new CD - it's 7 years ago he presented "Late Rent".
11 compositions of his own + one (Jon's tribute to the victims of 11 September 2001) in
form of a medley are the result of this new release with a new assembled band.
Two of the songs, the title song and the second one ("Jennifer's Song"), really are
based on Ravel's Bolero as far as it concerns the famous ostinato form. What concerns
the bar, Jon has without further ado changed it from the original 3/4 to Jon Hammond's 4/4.
So you get in fact Hammond's Bolero. These two songs sound a bit wistful, nevertheless
swinging by means of the "4/4-bolero".
Bop and jazz rock, a little bit funk and R&B characterize the other songs.
Surprisingly, soloes of the instruments are rare. This results in a feeling of compactness,
of a tough structure, however pleasing our ears.
Jon and his band convey a fresh atmosphere of swinging rhythms and nice melodies.
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