{"id":21899,"date":"2021-11-06T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21899"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T15:09:16","slug":"album-review-dave-liebman-expansions-selflessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/06\/album-review-dave-liebman-expansions-selflessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Dave Liebman Expansions &#8212; Selflessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21900\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dave_liebman_selflessness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dave_liebman_selflessness.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dave_liebman_selflessness-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dave_liebman_selflessness-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Selflessness<\/i> isn\u2019t saxophonist Dave Liebman\u2019s first tribute to John Coltrane, but as Lewis Porter\u2019s liner notes explain, it\u2019s the first of those in which he works with his current band rather than a one-off assemblage. And the result of this approach is a natural, unforced session in which there\u2019s a kind of preternatural, unspoken communication among the players. Joining Liebman are keyboardist Bobby Avery, upright bassist Tony Marino and sax\/flute man Matt Vashlishan.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a very modern approach \u2013 or at least using modern tools to make a classic-sounding recording \u2013 four of the tracks feature electronic instruments. Avey plays synthesizers on \u201cCompassion, \u201c\u201dDear Lord\u201d and the title track. And Vashlishan plays a win controller on \u201cCompassion.\u201d But traditionally-minded listeners aren\u2019t likely to be distracted by the high technology; it\u2019s employed in a manner in keeping with the material. Fusion this is not. \u201cCompassion\u201d in particular its a hypnotic, atmospheric track. (The CD version, not reviewed here, does feature additional tracks like &#8220;Ole&#8221; which are somewhat more synth-centric.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Favorite Things\u201d is here, of course, and its this group at its most lively. There\u2019s a lightness about these performances that suggests that the material \u2013 challenging and slightly abstract as it can sometimes be \u2013 felt like the most natural thing in the world to play and record. And listening feels that way, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selflessness isn\u2019t saxophonist Dave Liebman\u2019s first tribute to John Coltrane, but as Lewis Porter\u2019s liner notes explain, it\u2019s the first of those in which he works with his current band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42,49,65,73],"tags":[625,1177],"class_list":["post-21899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","category-vinyl","tag-dave-liebman","tag-john-coltrane","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21901,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions\/21901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}