Anthony Wilson – Hackensack West (Vinil 180g, LP)

Anthony Wilson’s „Hackensack West” is the second release from Cohearent Records, the record label of award-winning mastering engineer Kevin Gray, following the successful prelude „Shapes & Sound” by Kirsten Edkins. Jazz guitarist Wilson, who was born in L.A. in 1968 and is the son of legendary jazz trumpeter Gerald Wilson, plays swinging originals and fine ballad cover versions that are a joy to listen to.

Thelonious Monk fans and jazz connoisseurs will take notice of the name „Hackensack West”: This is the pseudonym for Gray’s „Cohearent” recording studio, a place inspired by Rudy Van Gelder’s first studio in Hackensack, New Jersey. It was there that Thelonious Monk recorded his classic „Hackensack” in 1954, a „counterfactual” melody over the chord changes of Gershwin’s „Oh, Lady Be Good”. Wilson’s own bebop-inspired tune „Hackensack West” seems to counterfactually allude to the changes in some well-known standards without conforming to any particular one.

The LP, produced by Joe Harley, is an audiophile feast for the ears, which the American music journalist Michael Fremer also warmly recommends.

Musiker: Anthony Wilson (g), Gerald Clayton (p), John Clayton (b), Jeff Hamilton (dr)

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Lista pieselor

Side 1

1. Daido

2. Verdesse

3. Sunday

Side 2

4. The Lands

5. Marlene

6. Hackensack West