The CD
Jacobs' first lead date, Time Change featured superb rhythm sections, both acoustic (Romero Lubambo and Rufus Reid) and electric (Chuck Loeb and Troy Millard), Dave Kikoski played keyboards and Bill Stewart drums throughout. Scott Kreitzer's reeds shared the front line with Jacobs, whose moving, exciting, and varied compositions took center stage.
Time Change charted #22 with The Gavin Report and was an R&R 60% jazz breaker. Billboard cited its "solidly swinging title track"; Jazziz reported that Jacobs evoked "the trumpet's magic power."
Time Change, explains Jacobs, "depicted musicians as world travelers, going through changes not just of chords and time zones but of jet lag and new cultures. Yet they somehow manage to make adjustments to whatever comes up."
Jacobs, presently at work on a new project, intriguingly titled Journey Through Night, again encompasses multi-level ideas, this time involving dream travel. "Listeners go through journeys, and so do players," says Jacobs. "We close our eyes as we play and enter our thoughts, a waking dream world. In the abstract plane, there's the dream fantasy of music, where we drift in our imaginations. But on the practical plane are the actual journeys .
Listeners are especially attracted to jazz, because improvisation makes each trip new and different."
- Fred Jacobs - tpt, flugel
- Adam Kolker - sax, flute;
- Chris Washburne - trombone
- John DiMartino - piano;
- Harvie S - bass
- Yoron Israel - drums
- Renato Thoms - perc.
- Randy Klein - producer
The tunes : Kensha, Dream Voyage, Contemp0,
& Journey Through Night
|
