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Lisa Parrott: Round Tripper
ByRound Tripper, Parrott's first recording as a stand alone leader (she's co-led a couple of dates), opens with "Rosa Takes a Stand," a prickly, angular melody that sounds like something Ornette C. might have written (he didn't; it was penned by Carlos Ward). Parrott is on alto here, and she brings as much feeling, as much human emotion to the mix as anyone out there. It's a sound with a backbone, with a soul, with verve and resilience: a quartet dynamic born of a perfect confluence of disparate personalities gelling toward a common goalgetting to the idea.
Parrott on baritone, on "Do You Think That I Do Not Know," is a deep marination in melancholy. The quartet is bolstered here with Nadje Noorhuis' rich flugelhorn, with Carl Dewhurst's silvery guitar slicing into the mood in a spare fashion. It sounds as if Parrott is sitting with her horn in an after midnight bar, contemplating the end of a love affair. "Dancing Laughing," anchored adeptly by ubiquitous drummer Matt Wilson's pop and bassist Chris Lightcap's bounce, brims with a joyous mood, and "Um Zero" takes things up-tempo, samba style, with Parrott's alto snaking around Dewhurst's succinct single notes.
Then there's "Round Trip," from Ornette Coleman's New York Is Now (Blue Note Records, 1968) set. Parrott leaves the guitar out of the mix here, to feature her robust baritone riding in high gear on the bass/drums drive train, followed up by a marvelous rendition, from Aussie-land, "Waltzing Matilda," the leader's alto sax and Noordhuis' trumpet sounding particularly impassioned, getting deep into the feeling.
Sounds like New York is now for reed woman Lisa Parrott.
Track Listing
Rosa Takes A Stand; Dancing Laughing; Do You Think That I Do Not Know; Um A Zero; D. Day; I Don't Know What; Round Trip; Waltzing Matilda.
Personnel
Lisa Parrott
saxophoneLisa Parrott: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone (3, 6, 7); Matt Wilson: drums; Chris Lightcap: double bass; Carl Dewhurst: guitar (1-6, 8); Nadje Noordhuis: trumpet (8), flugelhorn (3).
Album information
Title: Round Tripper | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Serious Niceness Records
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