''Same Mother'' is the sixth album by American pianist and composer
Jason Moran which was released on the
Blue Note label in 2005.
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accessed June 7, 2018
Reception
The
AllMusic review by Matt Collar said "Boundary-pushing pianist Jason Moran expands his sound yet again with a blend of modern electric and acoustic blues on ''Same Mother'' ... for fans of both forward-thinking jazz and roots music, ''Same Mother'' -- a conceptual nod to the unifying notion that we are all ultimately descended from one mother -- holds considerable surprises".
stated, "''Same Mother'' is a re-examination of the blues, not so much of its formal or harmonic elements, but rather its emotional and aesthetic constituents ... Ever since his arrival on the scene in the mid-1990s, Jason Moran has been a unique voice. He brings a wide-ranging, very contemporary perspective to even the oldest materials, including the blues. ''Same Mother'' is a triumph".
In
The Guardian, John Fordham wrote "This fierce but idiomatically familiar set augments the superb trio Moran has run since the late 1990s (bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits) with guitarist Marvin Sewell, on a repertoire that ransacks the retro and reforges it in the furnace of Moran's imagination".
[Fordham, J]
The Guardian Review
accessed June 7, 2018
In
JazzTimes,
Geoffrey Himes noted "Moran has once again demonstrated how jazz can reinvigorate itself by reaching beyond the usual show tunes and hard-bop rewrites to find new material for improvisation. Whether the material is classical music, hip-hop or blues, the trick, Moran implies, is to recognize the family resemblance between jazz and its musical relative without mistaking them for identical twins".
[Himes, G]
JazzTimes Review
accessed June 7, 2018
Track listing
All compositions by Jason Moran except where noted
# "Gangsterism On the Rise" – 2:54
# "Jump Up" – 5:48
# "Aubade" (
Andrew Hill, Moran) – 4:29
# "G Suit Saltation" – 6:01
# "I'll Play the Blues for You" (
Jerry Beach
Jerry Marlon Beach (December 11, 1941 – January 10, 2016) was an American blues musician. His father was stationed with the U.S. Army Air Corps in Oklahoma City. He spent his first two years of high school in London where he learned how to pla ...
) – 7:41
# "Fire Waltz" (
Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
) – 4:36
# "
Field of the Dead" (
Sergei Prokofiev) – 5:19
# "Restin'" – 4:15
# "The Field" (Alicia Hall Moran) – 4:06
# "Gangsterism On the Set" – 3:39
Personnel
*
Jason Moran – piano
* Marvin Sewell – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*
Tarus Mateen
Tarus Mateen, also known as Taurus Mateen and Tarus Dorsey Kinch (born October 21, 1967, Bakersfield, California) is an American double-bass and electric bassist, who works in jazz, pop, and R&B idioms.Gary W. Kennedy, "Tarus Mateen". '' The Ne ...
– acoustic bass, acoustic-electric bass
*
Nasheet Waits – drums
References
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2005 albums
Jason Moran (musician) albums
Blue Note Records albums