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02. John Blum - Second River
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ARTIST
BLUM, JOHN
TITLE
Nine Rivers
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ESP-DISK
CATALOG #
ESPDISK 5062CD
ESPDISK 5062CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
9/1/2023
The most well-informed aficionados of NYC's jazz avant-garde speak of pianist
John Blum
with reverential respect, yet his discography is shockingly small for someone with a three-decade career: five albums as a leader, four as a sideman. Blum studied piano with seminal avant-gardist
Cecil Taylor
and ambidextrous master
Borah Bergman
, and it shows, yet his style at its most intense is more thickly textured than even theirs, and fully individualistic. Blum's left hand recalls
James P. Johnson
: energy, power, rock-solid rhythm driver of the improvisation's engine. And speaking of engines, some of
Jimmy Yancey
's locomotive motion is there as well. Blum is actually a very melodic player, but the melodies are short and fast and may not be repeated more than once, so that's not the quality that the average listener might take away from the experience. Nonetheless, in a 20-minute solo improvisation, he creates enough catchy motivic material that a dozen or more songs could be woven from it. Another of Blum's teachers was
Milford Graves
; they share the sense of music as a journey to a higher understanding and a life-altering and life-enhancing practice. Blum looks more like an athlete than a musician, but then, the way he plays piano is athletic and requires a lot of muscle and stamina. The power of the concert performance on this album (performed collaboratively with video) is a revelation. "
Explosive Pianism!
" --
Nate Chinen
, New York Times
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