Harvey Mason Changing Partners: Trios 2 CD

If the attribute "super drummer" is mentioned, then the name Harvey Mason is not far away. The Grammy-nominated American composer and pianist is one of the busiest studio and live drummers in the world: The Notorious B.I.G., Carlos Santana, Barbra Streisand, James Brown, Henry Mancini, Sérgio Mendes, the London Symphony Orchestra and many other musicians have made and continue to make use of the arts of this exceptional talent. As a former member of Herbie Hancock's band Headhunters, for whom he co-wrote the hit "Chameleon", and co-founder of the contemporary jazz group Fourplay, Mason initiated a project with various trio formations that was frenetically celebrated by fans and the trade media: "Changing Partners: Trios".
"Changing Partners: Trios 2" is the successor to the legendary debut and is in no way inferior to the latter in terms of quality - on the contrary: "Changing Partners: Trios 2" is an outstanding, multi-layered and varied straight-ahead jazz trio album, which lives not only from the virtuoso versatility of the band leader, but also from the rotating line-up of musical comrades-in-arms. These include greats such as Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Dave Grusin, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Buster Williams. With a mix of fresh interpretations of popular jazz standards ("Sweet And Lovely") and original material ("Midnight Stroll"), Mason has created an album that, as he says, was "made with love". "Changing Partners" is a living tribute to the importance of the piano trio in the history of jazz while reaffirming the enduring legacy of the Great American Songbook.
Evosound now presents "Changing Partners: Trios 2" as a high-quality CD edition – with a slightly different tracklist compared to the One-Step LP edition!

Selections:

1. Change Partners
2. Sweet And Lovely
3. Mean Old Man
4. Hilda Plays
5. Waltz For Dave
6. You Don't Know What Love Is
7. Midnight Stroll
8. That Night
Bonus Tracks:
9. All Of You
10. There Will Never Be Another You
11. Bebop Betty
12. Prelude To A Kiss