Joe Lovano - From The Soul

CDs: From The Soul

1. Evolution (Lovano)
2. Portrait of Jenny (Burdge/Robinson)
3. Lines and Spaces (Lovano)
4. Body and Soul (Eyton/Green/Heyman/Sour)
5. Modern Man (Lovano)
6. Fort Worth (Lovano)
7. Central Park West (Coltrane)
8. Work (Monk)
9. Left Behind (Silverman)
10. His Dreams (Lovano)

Joe Lovano - Tenor Saxophone
Michel Petrucciani - Piano
Dave Holland - Bass
Ed Blackwell - Drums

Produced by Joe Lovano

Recorded December 28, 1991

"It's hard-edged, explosive playing all around, with Blackwell laying down his patented bombs while Petrucciani and Holland converge behind Lovano's dynamic solos." - Ron Wynn All Music Guide

This was the first recording on my Blue Note contract with an incredible group.

Michel Petrucianni was real virtuoso and a total natural. We met on my first European tour with Paul Motian, in 1981, when he Michel was playing with Charlies Lloyd. We play together at different times throughout the 80s, which led to this session.

I’d played a little with Dave, in a trio with Karl Berger, and he was really my first choice for the date. Blackwell and I were working together a lot during this period.

The repetoire is mixed, standards, a Coltrane classic, and my own tunes, with one of Judi’s, Left Behind, written for my dad, who had just passed. Evolution comes from the way the music evolves when we improvise, exporing different harmonics, which was an evolution for me.

There was an amazing rapport at this session and the music reflects it.

"...goes deep into jazz's traditional pulse, while retaining a great deal of mystery, its sense of moment to moment discovery. " New York Times