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Work Today is Giardullo’s homage to Steve Lacy, with whom the
younger reedman played in 2004. No Work Today is an
exercise in instrumental possibility, for it is an
investigation into phrases and organization, motifs rather than pure
sound. Lacy tunes like “Prospectus” and “Hurtles” are starting points
for an extension of Lacy’s idiom somewhere into another place on the
soprano spectrum, while Giardullo opens with a composition based on
Monk’s “Work” (the title track, its namesake a piece that yielded many
Lacy improvisations). Giardullo takes the quirks and snips that Lacy
provides and rather than spacing them out, breaking them or bending them
(which might be the obvious choice), builds long spiraling lines that
are not only more dense than one might expect, but also hit Lacy on
another point of the harmonic spectrum entirely. In other words, rather
than dissonant voicings and metrical movement, Giardullo appears to be
searching for something almost modal. No Work Today pays homage to
something similar to the open door that Monk provided for Lacy, namely a
view to the other side. |
All About Jazz - New
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Clifford Allen |
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