Joe Locke Quartet with Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra: Wish upon a Star
Author: Robert Shore
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Musicians: |
Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra (d) |
Label: |
Motéma |
Magazine Review Date: |
April/2013 |
Catalogue Number: |
233678 |
RecordDate: |
30 April 2011 |
Jazz/classical Third Stream crossovers come in all shapes and sizes these days. Shabaka Hutchings's ‘Babylon’, premiered at last year's London Jazz Festival and placing his Sons of Kemet quartet at the heart of the BBC Concert Orchestra, was at the out-there end of the spectrum. Vibes master Joe Locke's hook-up with the Lincoln, Nebraska Symphony Orchestra is an altogether cosier affair. Take the programme for a start: a handful of Locke originals, arranged by Ryan Cohan or regular Locke collaborator Tim Garland, a Garland tune (‘The Moon For Her’) to close things out, and along the way a series of stage and film-related classics: ‘Where Is Love?’ from Oliver!, Mercer and Mancini's ‘Moon River’, etc. The treatments are swooningly lyrical, but there's too much guile and quality here to fall into the trap of excessive sugariness. The best passage kicks in around the three-minute mark on the title track, when the band put some thrilling heat under the well-known tune from the Pinocchio soundtrack and those famous Locke mallets really begin to fly.

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