You Needed Me 6: Portrait Of Jennie 7: Billie's Bounce 8: My One And Only Love 9: I'll Take Romance 10: Don't Misunderstand 11: Fools Rush In 12. Harold Mabern's new album 'Afro Blue' featuring Norah and other guests is available today. Afro Blue - Harold Mabern. Harold Mabern - Afro Blue (2. Harold Mabern - Afro Blue (2. The Man from Hyde Park . My One and Only Love . Bobby, Benny, Jymie, Lee, Bu . At age 7. 8 he remains a sterling vocal accompanist, as demonstrated across this album featuring five of the finest singers around: Kurt Elling, Gregory Porter, Jane Monheit, Norah Jones and Alexis Cole. Alongside regular trio mates John Webber (bass) and Joe Farnsworth (drums), Mabern bookends the album with original instrumental tributes, opening with the propulsive “The Chief,” for John Coltrane, with guests Alexander (on tenor) and trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, and closing with the ice- cool swinger “Bobby, Benny, Jymie, Lee, Bu.”Porter steps in for another salute, the Mabern- penned “The Man From Hyde Park,” for Herbie Hancock, and a blistering treatment of the title track. Jones shines on “Fools Rush In” and the misty “Don’t Misunderstand.” Monheit’s kittenish allure is gorgeously realized on a lilting “I’ll Take Romance” and a satiny “My One and Only Love.” Evincing strong echoes of Chris Connor, Cole traverses another original, Mabern’s breezily philosophic “Such Is Life.” And Elling, distinctive as ever, helps define three widely diverse tracks: a sizzling, scat- fueled “Billie’s Bounce”; a tenderly reflective “Portrait of Jennie”; and this project’s biggest surprise, a near- anthemic rendering of the Anne Murray hit “You Needed Me.” - -- Christopher Loudon, jazztimes. One of several excellent hard bop pianists from the Memphis area, Harold Mabern has led relatively few dates through the years, but he has always been respected by his contemporaries. He played in Chicago with MJT + 3 in the late '5. New York in 1. 95. Mabern worked with Jimmy Forrest, Lionel Hampton, the Jazztet (1. Donald Byrd, Miles Davis (1. J. J. Johnson (1. Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, Joe Williams (1. Sarah Vaughan. During 1. Mabern led four albums for Prestige, he was with Lee Morgan in the early '7. Stanley Cowell's Piano Choir. Harold Mabern has recorded as a leader for DIW/Columbia and Sackville and toured with the Contemporary Piano Ensemble (1.
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