Sunday, February 17, 2013

Ben Goldberg, Joshua Redman, Ron Miles , Scott Amendola - Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues (BAG Production Records 2013)

Recorded in two days in February, 2008, at the legendary Bay Records in Berkeley, California, but not made available until now, Goldberg's session has a loose, swinging sound on tunes ranging from the avant-swing of "Evolution" to the exuberant funeral march of "Possible" to the stark blues of Ben's arrangement of Bob Dylan's version of "Satisfied Mind." Ben writes: "Joshua Redman and I had gotten to know each other when SF Jazz presented a double bill of my trio Plays Monk and Josh's trio featuring Joe Lovano. Later I invited Josh to sit in with my quintet, and he suggested that we make a record together. Ron Miles and I are both from Denver and I had always been crazy about his playing so I invited him (this was before we recorded Go Home). I brought some new compositions and arrangements of older tunes and we had a blast." http://bagproductionrecords.org