Description
Title: Fire In The West
Artist: Neil Swainson
Label: Cellar Live
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 875531022056
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2022-08-19
Number of Discs: 1
A long-time fan of the front-line pairings of the 1950s bands of Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Horace Silver (for whom “”Silver Mine”” is dedicated), Swainson shaped both his compositions and the blue-chip rhythm section of pianist Renee Rosnes (with whom he”d worked in the 1990s cross border band Free Trade) and Lewis Nash around this stylistic post-bop conception. With compositional dedications to musical influences (the aforementioned “”Silver Mine””), to impactful places (“”Kyushu,”” a musical reflection of time spent on this Japanese island), to people (“”Fell Among Thieves”” references a biblical parable that Swainson relates to some “”wonderful”” people he has known who fell into difficult company and circumstance), this new recording offers a personal glimpse inside Swainson”s musical and compositional mind.
Tracks:
1.1 Fire in the West
1.2 Fool”s Gold
1.3 Cascades
1.4 Standing Back
1.5 Fell Among Thieves
1.6 Kyushu
1.7 Late Afternoon
1.8 Near North
1.9 Gone Away
1.10 Silver Mine
