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DAVID GIBSON: THIS END UP

TRACK

This End Up

ARTIST

David Gibson (trombone)

CD

A Little Somethin’ (Positone 8054)

Recorded: New York, June 25, 2008Musicians:

David Gibson (trombone),

Julius Tolentino (alto saxophone), Jared Gold (organ), Quincy Davis (drums)

Composed by Jared Gold

 

RATING: 78/100 (learn more)

Trombonist David Gibson, a graduate of the Eastman School, supplemented his musical education with on-the-job training, including a six-year stint with a sextet at the New York City club �Smoke�. On �This End�s Up� we hear Gibson�s controlled, precise tone on this Jared Gold-penned composition. The music is derivative of a time past and competently played. Gibson is a talented player, but I would have preferred a gutsier edge to his playing than what he shows here. Accompanied by the swinging, soulful organist Jared Gold, whose Hammond sound is reminiscent of Jimmy Smith , Gibson�s trombone has a deliberate, soulful feel that is promising but restrained. Tolentino�s alto is crisp and bright and provides an uplifting sense of flight. Gold manipulates the sound of his B3 and plays with great abandon. Davis and Gold together keep the rhythm steady as the melody fades away.

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Courtesy Posi-tone Records

Release Date: June 23rd Posi-tone Records
Producer: Marc Free Personnel: David Gibson– Trombone; Julius Tolentino– Alto Saxophone; Jared Gold– Organ; Quincy Davis– Drums

Bringing a sound that must surely please Mr. House of Swing himself (Wynton Marsalis to the rest of us), David Gibson’s A Little Somethin’ is a nine song total package. Gibson and crew are New York City jazz staples, and as a band they complement each other’s strengths quite well. Starting with the pleasant familiarity of the first track, The Cobbler, the group plays with elements of swing, contemporary, jam and soft bop throughout the CD. Gibson, who wrote five of the nine tracks, shows great skill in crafting compositions full of melodic dips and dives.

Organist Jared Gold really stands out on several tracks including his self-penned This End Up! The quartet successfully brought the essence of live, improvised force to the whole thing; one wonders how this will sound in a venue with the confines of studio playing out of the way.

A Little Somethin’ is a solid set that is worthy of steady rotation.

Key Tracks: Hot Sauce, French Press, In the Loop

by Mark Corroto
Easily mistaken for a Blue Note session of the 1960s (and that’s just fine), the latest by trombonist David Gibson delivers a solid buoyant session of burners. Except for the classic “April In Paris,” all the music was written by the trombonist or a a band member. The presence of organist Jared Gold ramps up the energy considerably. His sound competes with each other instrument for space, forcing that macho bebop favored by trombonist Curtis Fuller, drummer Elvin Jones and trumpeter Lee Morgan.

Gibson is not adverse to the muscular attack. He and alto saxophonist Julius Tolentino manage a front line that sounds as if there were double the two horns heard. Perhaps it is their choice of this more audacious bebop that fuels the recording. They certainly go for popular attention with the funky “Hot Sauce,” which comes straight out of saxophonist Tom Scott’s bag of the late 1970s and jam-sound of “In The Loop.” But mostly this record is about solid swing and small group dynamics, all captured with a burning intensity.

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To read or listen to some of the commentary about jazz and hear that this genre of music is dying; to read with cynicism that artists are either playing music that is 50 years old or they are playing something so “catchy” and “mainstream,” that it is a “stretch of the imagination” to even call it jazz. This is all over the place. One listen to trombonist David Gibson ‘s A Little Somethin’ serves as proof that the people who share that opinion of jazz aren’t looking—or listening—in the right place.

Gibson was a finalist in the first Thelonious Monk Competition that featured trombone. His debut as a bandleader was on Maya (Nagel-Hayer Records, 2003). His associations over the years include work with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Band, Slide Hampton, James Moody, Wayne Escoffery and Randy Brecker, among many others. On A Little Somethin’, he is accompanied by alto saxophonist Julius Tolentino , organist Jared Gold and drummer Quincy Davis.

“The Cobbler” is an upbeat, playful piece. Saxophone and trombone are in unison during the melody. Gold and Davis, the latter punctuating phrases with rim shots, back Gibson’s solo. The beat continues during Tolentino’s solo. Gold solo is as well, accompanied only by Davis.

“Hot Sauce” is as its name implies. This spicy selection features a duet lead by Gold and Tolentino, with Gibson providing fills early on. Davis goes solo briefly during the bridge. On the second pass, Gibson joins the lead. Tolentino delivers a funky, Maceo Parker -flavored alto solo. Gibson follows. Gold puts the organ through some stunning paces. At times, it is discordant, but it is intense throughout.

Gibson wrote five of the original songs, on this fine album, while Gold contributed two and Tolentino composed one. With upbeat tempos, perfect unison passages and spicy grooves. < em>A Little Somethin’ sure is new jazz with an old-school feel.