Dig This!!

by Wycliffe Gordon

Overview

Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon was the most adventurous musician to spin off from Wynton Marsalis' orbit. Since his tenure with Marsalis, Gordon collaborated with everyone from revivalists in the Sidney Bechet Project to progressive composer Ted Nash and Randy Sandke's Inside Outside project, which brings together practitioners from the musical extremes. He's been more restricted in his own solo dates but has shown he's willing to reach beyond the confines of traditional hard bop. Dig This!! finds him employing the fashionable textures provided by the Hammond organ. True to form though, Gordon refuses to get locked into the funk cliches of the organ combo sound. Rather with its wide-open swing feel Dig This!! comes off more as a contemporary version of swing trombonist Vic Dickenson's 1952 quartet dates with Bill Doggett. Certainly "Limehouse Blues" fits the mold, albeit updated. And Gordon's unaccompanied playing on "Blues Etude #2" and elsewhere shows him a fitting successor to Dickenson's rubbery expressionism. Gordon has surrounded himself with a fine band. Organist Sam Yahel and guitarist Peter Bernstein each reveal a debt to their swing precursors while saxophonist Seamus Blake plays in a hard-driving contemporary manner. All of them swing, and regardless the context Gordon puts himself in, that's a constant. ~ David Dupont

Product Details

Release Date:	09/23/2003
Label:	Criss Cross
UPC:	8712474123827
Rank:	100486

Tracks

1. Dig This!!
2. Mahajual
3. Old Man Blooz, Take 2
4. Limehouse Blues
5. The Beautiful Souls
6. Jookin' the Blooz
7. Lonnie's Lament
8. I Can't Get Started
9. Cone's Tune
10. Blues Etude #2
11. Old Man Blooz, Take 1

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Wycliffe Gordon   Primary Artist,Trombone
Wycliffe Gordon Quintet   Primary Artist
Bill Stewart   Guest Artist,Drums
Sam Yahel   Guest Artist,Organ (Hammond)
Peter Bernstein   Guest Artist,Guitar
Seamus Blake   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)

Technical Credits

Max Bolleman   Engineer
Oscar Peterson   Composer
Gildas Bocle   Photography
Gerry Teekens   Producer,Cover Design
Philip Braham   Composer
Wycliffe Gordon   Composer
H. Bloemendaal   Cover Design
K. Hasselpflug   Executive Producer
David A. Orthmann   Liner Notes
Seamus Blake   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Emil van Egdom   Composer
John Coltrane   Composer
Vernon Duke   Composer
Douglas Furber   Composer