Hip to the tip from Just – a fag end of Feb release
Starts off like it’s going to be ‘A Waltz for Debby.’
But of course it isn’t although shares that timeless emotion and time signature feel.
Debonair, deliciously inviting. There’s no debate about its easy quality.
Because it’s a keeper, laidback, doesn’t shout the big I am. Doesn’t need to as it pulses and emulsifies. Like a photograph developing in a darkroom you hold on to see what’s going on to emerge as the shapes and contours of the four intertwining lines from the instrumentalists navigate a certain 21st century post nostalgia counterpoint.
Written by tenor of our times the rewardingly laconic reincarnation of Warne Marsh Mark Turner here with his Temporary Kings comrade Ethan Iverson plus Ben Street joining the Mwandishi legend Billy Hart.
Easy going, beautifully rendered, super talkative soloing from Turner and that consummate Hart-to-Heart at the drums it’s a romantic number in one sense, a ballad but not super slow, smoochy or besotted.
Hip to the Hart tip, feed upon the shadow of perfection. As Shakespeare sized love up in The Two Gentlemen of Verona it’s “foster’d, illumin’d, cherish’d, kept alive.”
