Something tells me that Bone hasn't finished musing upon this fine period of jazz (finally and only recently acknowledged as worthwhile). And while I'm not sure what the Pike references are here, the spirit of Cal Tjader rocks through Bone's "Playa Six" as if the vibraphonist himself was dancing through a Brazilian rain forest (a mood which also prevails on the disc's unnamed ninth track). The disc's opening and closing numbers ("Garden," "47 Youth Street") are both ballads out of the Bob James bag. But he always brought a colorful jazz vocabulary to his music and engaged top talents in the jazz field to bring his memorable sketches to life.īone comes close to achieving the same thing here (albeit with less overt improvisation) on the intriguingly titled "Dragneta, My Love" (the disc's best track), "Outside The Incrimination Field" (a smoldering soundtrack number suggesting something from Alphaville ) and the swinging "Amorita Dive" (working the organ groove of Jimmy Smith).
Hopkins was a music supervisor on many film and TV projects through the 1970s. Whether Bone knows it or not, Coxa most clearly recalls the interesting and unfortunately forgotten music Kenyon Hopkins made in the 50s and 60s under Creed Taylor's auspices (especially 1963's Yellow Canary and 1965's Mister Buddwing, both on Verve and out of print). But Bone, as usual, captures and holds attention by delivering imaginatively conceived rhythms and subtly shifting rhythmic patterns. Therefore, a jazz listener with a given set of expectations might feel as lost at sea in Bone's brew as someone expecting a new-age cocktail. While his tunes are all engagingly melodic, he concentrates more on setting or conveying a mood than exploring lines or melodies. Here, though, Bone spices his jazz impressions with the work of vibesmen Cal Tjader and Dave Pike as well as Rudy Van Gelder, who single-handedly engineered the bulk of sixties jazz that appeared on Verve, Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse.Įvocative is probably the best way to describe what Bone, a one-man orchestra, accomplishes here. Lost Tapes (Parallel Universe) by Pop Mechanix, released 06 June 2020 1. Coxa, an anatomical term meaning hip bone (clever, huh?), is again inspired by producer Creed Taylor's galvanizing Verve productions of the mid-1960s. "The multitalented and multi-textual keyboardist Richard Bone continues his ambient reflections on mid-1960s jazz with Coxa, his tenth disc as a leader and a sequel of sorts to 1998's bossa-oriented Electropica. a swirling encounter at the intersection ofĪll About Jazz - A Review By Douglas Payne ".a hazy, smoky jazz journey inspired by the classicĬreed Taylor/Rudy Van Gelder recordings of the mid 1960's. The tell that you tell, from your bottom low the only direction is straight back up But I am still crashing as I plummet down Spark your burning flame, matches and gasoline I know, I can, soar up high I might crash and I might burn, but resurrect myself from your flame I know, I can, soar up high I will burn away, the waste.