{"id":18966,"date":"2020-06-20T05:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=18966"},"modified":"2020-06-20T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:11:01","slug":"album-review-the-tnek-jazz-quintet-plays-the-music-of-sam-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/album-review-the-tnek-jazz-quintet-plays-the-music-of-sam-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Tnek Jazz Quintet Plays the Music of Sam Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bassist Sam Jones was an important figure in hard bop and soul jazz of the 1950s and beyond. Alternatively known as \u201cCannon\u2019s Theme,\u201d his composition \u201cUnit 7\u201d was a showcase number <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18967\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/tnek_jazz_quintet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/tnek_jazz_quintet.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/tnek_jazz_quintet-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/tnek_jazz_quintet-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>for Adderley\u2019s Quintet. Jones played with Adderley during the latter\u2019s peak period (roughly 1957-\u201965, and again near the end of Adderley\u2019s time on Earth). He was part of cornetist Nat Adderley\u2019s band as well, appearing on seven albums. Jones also worked with other big names including Kenny Burrell, Chet Baker, Donald Byrd, Lou Donaldson, Art Farmer and many others. And beginning with 1960\u2019s <i>The Soul Society<\/i>, Jones led a band of his own for a string of well-regarded albums.<\/p>\n<p>Jones left behind a formidable catalog, and it\u2019s to that body of work that The Tnek Jazz Quintet applies itself on <i>Plays the Music of Sam Jones<\/i>. Drawing from Jones\u2019 compositions (and one Burrell number that Jones played on), the Quintet digs into these tunes with a perfect balance of reverence and originality. There\u2019s nothing about this album that identifies it as a 2020 recording; it has that classic live-in-studio feel &#8212; no effects, no production gimmicks \u2013 that underscores the timeless character of the music. If you\u2019ve already amassed a collection of the best that late \u201850s to \u201860s jazz has to offer, this album will fit seamlessly into your collection. And if you\u2019re looking for a user-friendly entry point into the style, you could do worse than start with T<i>he Tnek Jazz Quintet Plays the Music of Sam Jones<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bassist Sam Jones was an important figure in hard bop and soul jazz of the 1950s and beyond. Alternatively known as \u201cCannon\u2019s Theme,\u201d his composition \u201cUnit 7\u201d was a showcase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49,65],"tags":[4231,4230],"class_list":["post-18966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","tag-sam-jones","tag-tnek-jazz-quintet","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19037,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions\/19037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}