{"id":11099,"date":"2019-05-04T21:27:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T04:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2019-05-04T21:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T04:34:59","slug":"the-old-catchup-game-part-723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/05\/the-old-catchup-game-part-723\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Catchup Game, Part 723"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stephans, Liebman, Copland, Gress<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Y9DnLR\">Quartette Oblique<\/a> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/41K1OHMQucL-e1557030123661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/41K1OHMQucL-e1557030123661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a>Attempting the impossible, <em>Rifftides<\/em> once again tries to catch up. We all know that is impossible because record companies refuse to accept that jazz is dead; they keep releasing new music. It took too long for me to mention this superb quartet album, which has been out for a year or so. From Dave Liebman&#8217;s falling-away tenor saxophone insinuations that introduce Wayne Shorter&#8217;s &#8220;Nardis&#8221; through the concluding exploration of Miles Davis&#8217;s &#8220;So What&#8221; and &#8220;All Blues.&#8221; Liebman, drummer Michael Stephans, pianist Marc Copland and bassist Drew Gress meld in intriguing versions not only of the two modern classics by Shorter and Davis but also the Schwartz &amp; Deitz Standard &#8220;You And The Night And The Music,&#8221; Duke Ellington&#8217;s &#8220;In A Sentimental Mood,&#8221; and bassist Gress&#8217;s composition &#8220;Vesper.&#8221; Copland&#8217;s harmonic sensivity and keyboard touch are superb in the Gress piece. Liebman&#8217;s capacious tenor sax sound and conception match the relaxation and assurance in Gress&#8217;s writing and soloing. Liebman maintains the high standard he has set for himself over the past year or two as he excels not only in his own projects but in a series of guest appearances on other artists&#8217; albums. <em>Quartette Oblique&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>was recorded before a responsive audience at the venerable Deers Head Inn in the Pennsylvania Mountains. It wears well, and is likely to through many hearings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephans, Liebman, Copland, Gress: Quartette Oblique (Sunnyside) Attempting the impossible, Rifftides once again tries to catch up. We all know that is impossible because record companies refuse to accept that jazz is dead; they keep releasing new music. It took too long for me to mention this superb quartet album, which has been out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}