{"id":148,"date":"2010-08-07T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephachambers.com\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2010-08-07T09:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:24:54","slug":"something-else-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/?page_id=148","title":{"rendered":"Something Else Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CD Review: http:\/\/www.somethingelsereviews.com\/2010\/04\/more-highnote-high-jinks-wallace-roney.html<\/p>\n<p>Joe Chambers Horace to Max<\/p>\n<p>His first album in four years and his second for the Savant label  (sister label of HighNote), Joe Chambers\u2019 album title pays homage to Max  Roach and Horace Silver, one for whom he was closely associated with  directly (Roach) and the other with whom he was closely associated with  that person\u2019s well-known sidemen (Silver). For this album full of pure  post-bop goodness, Chambers himself chooses prominent sideman of the  current generation, such as Xavier Davis (piano) and Eric Alexander  (tenor saxophone).<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect, there are Horace and Max tunes in here\u2014three  from Roach, one from Silver\u2014but Chambers also tackles tunes from  Shorter, Monk and Kenny Dorham, as well as his own originals. The  straightforward arrangements on these songs don\u2019t offer exciting new  revelations, the treasures of this record are found in the firm  execution and quiet confidence of the musicians involved. Chambers the  Vibes Player reminds me some of latter period Bobby Hutcherson, one of  the many cats Chambers contributed his drumming for on classic records.  And Chambers can still drum like a champ; his style remains in the same  vicinity as Roy Haynes. Nicole Guiland contributes vocals for a couple  of tracks, and if torch singing is your thing, there\u2019s nothing not to  like about that. The best cover of the batch is Marcus Miller\u2019s  \u201cPortia,\u201d first appearing on Miles Davis\u2019 Tutu. Stripped of its  over-produced veneer, Chambers finds the beauty of its mysterious, moody  melody (and Xavier Davis contributes a fine piano solo).<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to Wallace Roney\u2019s CD cover, Chambers\u2019 looks just like  one of this classic Blue Note album covers. The other difference is that  the music roughly matches the cover. Good thing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/music.php\">Joe Chambers Music for Sale<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Review: http:\/\/www.somethingelsereviews.com\/2010\/04\/more-highnote-high-jinks-wallace-roney.html Joe Chambers Horace to Max His first album in four years and his second for the Savant label (sister label of HighNote), Joe Chambers\u2019 album title pays homage to Max Roach and Horace Silver, one for whom he was closely associated with directly (Roach) and the other with whom he was closely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephachambers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}