{"id":2248,"date":"2012-04-13T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/good-sound-joseph-taylor\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:17:31","slug":"good-sound-joseph-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/good-sound-joseph-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Sound – Joseph Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

“…so much variety and virtuosity that the time moves by quickly.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri\u2019s wide-ranging career as a recording and performing artist since 1960 includes appearances with George Benson and Pat Martino, as well as some surprising turns, like his work on Dire Straits\u2019 Love over Gold (1982). His fusion group, Steps Ahead, included at various points Michael Brecker, Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Don Grolnick, and other jazz musicians who made their reputations in the \u201970s and \u201980s. Mainieri and Dutch guitarist Marnix Busstra established their current quartet last year, when they recorded Twelve Pieces. Marnix and the remaining musicians, Eric van der Westen and Pieter Bastis, are well respected in Europe, where they recorded Trinary Motion \/ Live in Europe during a 2008 tour.<\/p>\n

Busstra wrote all but four of the tunes on this two-disc set, and his themes let the musicians show their impressive abilities in different settings. \u201cDon\u2019t Break Step\u201d is an old-fashioned swinger, and Mainieri cuts loose with a nicely developed solo that evokes Milt Jackson. \u201cStrega\u201d is angular and modern — not quite fusion, though Busstra\u2019s solo uses electronic effects. The tune has a leisurely surface, but it develops an edge thanks largely to van der Westen\u2019s grounded bass, which sounds as if a hint of distortion was added. \u201cPiece\u201d has a touch of the funk of John Scofield\u2019s collaborations with Medeski, Martin, and Wood, while \u201cLost in Little Spain\u201d manages to be convincing jazz\/rock fusion without sounding dated. For all Busstra\u2019s considerable talents as a soloist, it\u2019s his writing on Trinary Motion that consistently demands attention.<\/p>\n

Mainieri gives Joe Zawinul\u2019s \u201cYoung and Fine\u201d a masterful turn, with a loose, upbeat groove that at first feels more traditional than the original Weather Report version. But there\u2019s nothing stodgy or old fashioned about the playing, especially van der Westen\u2019s fluid, driving bass. Mainieri and Busstra pull so many new things from Zawinul\u2019s melody that the song feels renewed. Mainieri is probably at least 30 years younger than the other musicians on this disc, but he\u2019s an indefatigable player who never runs out of ideas. His two compositions, \u201cAll in a Row\u201d and the title track, are as involving and fresh as Busstra\u2019s. Bastis and van der Westen provide a solid foundation that keeps the music centered and lets the primary soloists spin off with confidence.<\/p>\n

Trinary Motion crackles with the energy of live performance, and the players are locked into each other, open to possibilities and reacting to the moment. The set is smartly paced, and the nearly two hours of music contain so much variety and virtuosity that the time moves by quickly. Olivier Schutte recorded the performances in Belgium and the Netherlands, and Norbert Sollewijn Gelpke mixed and mastered the set at Studio Nopol in Amstelveen, Netherlands. The recording fully captures the dimensions of the small clubs where the music was performed. Some occasional distortion in the bass leads me to believe it was too closely recorded or, perhaps, the strings were too low to the neck. Despite that flaw, Trinary Motion \/ Live in Europe is a very enjoyable listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“…so much variety and virtuosity that the time moves by quickly.” Jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri\u2019s wide-ranging career as a recording and performing artist since 1960 includes appearances with George Benson and Pat Martino, as well as some surprising turns, like his work on Dire Straits\u2019 Love over Gold (1982). His fusion group, Steps Ahead, included at various points Michael Brecker,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review-trinary-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}