The Monterey Quartet – Live at the 2007 Jazz Festival

Artist: The Monterey Quartet
Title Of Album: Live at the 2007 Jazz Festival
Recorded: monterey Jazz Festival September 22, 2007
Release Date : Jul 28, 1998
Label : Concord Records
Genre: Jazz/Post-Bop
Quality: FLAC Tracks (Log+Cue+scan+Info)
Bitrate: Lossless
Studio/Live : Live
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
Total Time: 78:28
Total Size: 472 Mb (Recovery 6%)

Review by Michael G. Nastos
In modern jazz, few super groups are formed even for one-shot efforts due to scheduling,
but the Monterey Jazz Festival has been inclined to forge bands of steel to perform at their
legendary event. Ostensibly a Dave Holland quartet, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba is the
missing link, one who has played in the U.S. only sporadically since the political ban of
Cuban musicians in the 2000s. Happily he is here with Holland, former Holland quintet tenor
saxophonist Chris Potter, and the fantastic drummer Eric Harland, who has been a regular
member of Holland’s quintet and big band. The difference is that this is in fact truly a co-op
combo, with each member contributing original compositions. Rarely does such a band loaded
with talent come together so cohesively, making some of the most exciting neo-bop based music
to come across the pike in recent memory. As Potter is a post-Michael Brecker stylist,
the Harland composition “Treachery” starts off the set in that mode, with a dizzying array
of rhythm changes, an Irish jig flavor, and music played at an incredibly high level by all.
“50″ was written by Rubalcaba for the festival’s fiftieth anniversary, a high-powered
bop-based piece that is unstoppable, and churns into a tasty, spirited, funky number urged
on by the multi-faceted pianist and Potter’s expressionism that reflects both John Coltrane
and the chortling sounds of Ernie Krivda. The piece contributed by Potter, “Ask Me Why,”
closes the program powerfully as a complex, quirky, spiky offshoot of a Thelonious
Monk-inspired piece, countermanded in an exhaustive, assertive mood, with Latin branches
and a kinetic attitude that leaves one gasping for air. Both Harland and especially Holland
are given due solo space, the bassist on the intros of the tender and innocent “Maiden,”
for the drummer’s wife, and in quieted urgency as is Holland’s style in 10/8 time for the
sleek “Step to It” with marvelous unity between Potter and Rubalcaba. There’s stark mystery
cued by Holland’s ostinato lead during “Veil of Tears” with some additional curious sub-plot
lines, and the slowed “Minotaur” contributed by Rubalcaba has a bolero flair, but a more dour
approach. It would be difficult to deem this recording as anything less than flawless.
It’s beyond reproach in terms of originality, execution, and pure heartfelt jazz genius.
Fans of any of these great musicians will need to have this in your collections,
and it bears strong consideration as one of the best jazz releases of 2009.

Tracks:
1.Treachery (Harland) 7:46
2.Minotaur (Potter) 11:35
3.Otra Mirada (Rubalcaba) 5:16
4.Step to It (Holland) 10:11
5.Maiden (Harland) 10:33
6.50 (Rubalcaba) 9:59
7.Veil of Tears (Holland) 10:47
8.Spoken Introduction 00:38
9.Ask Me Why (Potter) 11:21

Personnel:
Dave Holland – Bass
Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Piano
Chris Potter – Tenor sax
Eric Harland - Drums

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