Jay Leonhart Trio

Jay Leonhart Trio – Fly Me To The Moon (2018)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:05:57 minutes | 2,66 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Venus Records [VHGD-283]

Jay Leonhart has been recognized as a very accomplished bass player for a long time now. He has been named the Outstanding Bassist In the Recording Industry three times and is always mentioned when the discussion turns to the outstanding . At age thirteen, while playing banjo with his brother in a dixieland band in Baltimore, Jay watched and listened to the bass player and knew that the bass was the instrument he would play forever. Since that time Jay has been privileged to play with the likes of Judy Garland, Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Buddy Rich, Jim Hall, Peggy Lee, Mel Torme, Marian McPartland, Kenny Barron, Sting, James Taylor, Papa Joe Jones, Roy Eldridge, Jim Hall, Louie Bellson, Dick Hyman, Luciano Pavoratti, and many more.

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Jay Leonhart Trio – Fly Me To The Moon (2004) [Japan 2018]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 65:57 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 2,65 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,2 GB

On this tribute to Ray Brown, this stellar trio plays its way through 11 standards in nearly 66 minutes, and the result is as fresh and tasty as you could ever wish. The trio’s instrumentation begs comparison with the great Oscar Peterson Trio, of whom Brown was such an important member, but this threesome plays with confidence and gusto, as if to scoff at the folly of such futile mind play. Joy and good fun exude from the disc as if from pores, writes reviewer J. Robert Bragonier.

Highlights of the album include a brisk and sparkling “Street Where You Live,” Green’s awe-inspiring solo on “No Greater Love,” Green and Cohn’s counterpoint in the opening minute and again near the conclusion of “Just in Time,” Leonhart’s wistful arco bass solos in “Alone Together” that sandwich a swinging samba beat; and the beautiful, underexposed Cole Porter ballad “Dream Dancing.” The disc concludes with the lovely and relatively obscure “Some Other Time” by Leonard Bernstein.

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