{"id":23964,"date":"2022-10-22T05:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23964"},"modified":"2022-10-23T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T16:21:42","slug":"album-review-craig-davis-tone-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/22\/album-review-craig-davis-tone-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Craig Davis &#8212; Tone Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23965\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/craig_davis_tone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/craig_davis_tone.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/craig_davis_tone-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/craig_davis_tone-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Pianist Michael \u201cDodo\u201d Marmarosa was a bebop musician whose most celebrated period was the 1940s to \u201860s (he passed away on 2002). In his early years, he played with a number of the highest-profile bands including those led by Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw and Gene Krupa. Later he worked extensively as a sideman, and occasionally as a band leader. A new recording by Pittsburgh-born Craig Davis honors the work of hometown hero Marmarosa.<\/p>\n<p>Working as part of a trio with upright bassist John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton, Davis explores Marmarosa\u2019s catalog, delivering energetic and expressive readings of ten classics. The tunes swing gently, with balanced emphasis on melody, subtlety and groove. An original tune, Davis\u2019 own \u201cA Ditty for Dodo\u201d is an homage to Marmarosa\u2019s style; if one didn\u2019t know otherwise, they might mistake it for one of his tunes.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the set is the vaguely bossa-nova styled \u201cOpus No. 5,\u201d and the kinetic \u201cBattle of the Balcony Jive\u201d is the most uptempo of the set. The impressionistic and melancholy \u201cDodo\u2019s Lament\u201d closes the collection. Taken as a whole, Davis\u2019 selections display the breadth of Marmarosa\u2019s compositional and arranging style, and may well spur listeners to rediscover the late pianist\u2019s body of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pianist Michael \u201cDodo\u201d Marmarosa was a bebop musician whose most celebrated period was the 1940s to \u201860s (he passed away on 2002). In his early years, he played with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42,49,65],"tags":[4962,4963],"class_list":["post-23964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","tag-craig-davis","tag-dodo-marmarosa","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964","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=23964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23966,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions\/23966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}