Bill McHenry

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Fresh Sound New Talent

Personnel:
Bill McHenry (ts), Ben Monder (g), Reid Anderson (b), Gerald Cleaver (d)

Reference: FSNT-056

Bar code: 8427328420563



01. Not What It Seems 2:47
02. Art/Omi 5:02
03. Blocks and Dots 6:01
04. Casi Te Amo 8:33
05. Old Tune 3:52
06. C Major Tune 6:08
07. Eleven Eleven 4:29

Album details

All compositions by Bill McHenry

Recorded by Jon Rosenberg at Tedesco Studios, Paramus, New Jersey, on September 26, 1998

Edited by Dan Stein & Jamie Saft at Frank Booth, Brooklyn, New York

Produced by Bill McHenry
Executive producer: Jordi Pujol

Press reviews

"This second CD by Bill McHenry confirms him as one of the most original voices on tenor sax from the NY jazz scene. A young saxophonist sets down the new sound coming from music schools and New Yorks farm-team jazz bars: a hybrid of structure and free improvisation influenced by Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, and possibly even Mr. McHenrys influential contemporary, Mark Turner."

Ben Ratliff (January 13, 2000)
The New York Times
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"Graphic is more compositionally varied and a good deal more laid back than Rest Stop, Bill McHenry's previous effort. Again, guitarist Ben Monder shares the front-line with the leader while bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Gerald Cleaver undergird the sonorous tenor/guitar blend with solid rhythmic interplay.

"Blocks and Dots" and "C Major Tune" are the album's most aggressive tracks. On the former, McHenry wails like a free jazzer but leaves plenty of space. On the latter, Cleaver provides a subtle, bouncy African flavor that pushes Monder and McHenry in unexpected directions during their respective solos.

The other five tracks are far more placid, beginning with "Not What It Seems," a slowly evolving, dissonant yet pretty opener. "Art/Omi" and "Casi te Amo" feature finely crafted melodies that recall the pop-like balladry of Keith Jarrett. "Old Tune" begins with McHenry stating the melody; Monder begins to flit around the theme with flurries of notes while the rhythm section slowly but surely eases into a defined groove. McHenry's tenor playing here is particularly subdued and tasteful. The meditative "Eleven Eleven" closes the record; Monder and McHenry solo simultaneously, bouncing ideas off one another as a slow swing tempo develops underneath.

More so than on his previous release, McHenry synthesizes the different aspects of his musical personality with profundity and grace."

David R. Adler -All Music Guide

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