Reissue with the latest 2015 DSD remastering. Comes with liner notes. Pianist Denny Zeitlin is sporting a beard on the cover of this fourth album for Columbia Records – and his music here definitely reflects a bit of a change from his earlier cleaner-cut image! Denny steps a bit outside at times – never to much so to make the album a session of avant jazz, but definitely showing the listener at the start that he's able to stretch out in the same way as some of the more adventurous pianists of his generation – yet really sound best as a master of lyrical understatement, as on his previous few records! Zeitlin's command of chords is wonderful – these blocks of color and subtle sound in his hands – inspired by Bill Evans, but taken in a whole new direction – and set up here in two different trios, with either Charlie Haden or Joe Halpin on bass, and Oliver Johnson or Jerry Granelli on drums. The real star of the show is always Denny.
Denny Zeitlin's fourth Columbia record has a pair of studio sessions featuring two separate trios, but both show his growing interest in abstract arrangements; the music is so exciting that one could believe it was recorded before a live audience if not for the pristine sound. Charlie Haden and Jerry Granelli join him on the pianist's long free piece "Mirage." After replacing them with bassist Joe Halpin and drummer Oliver Johnson, Zeitlin packs a powerful wallop with an aggressive dissonant take of "I Got Rhythm."
Tracks
1. Dormammu (D. Zeitlin)
2. Put Your Little Foot Right Out (D. Zeitlin)
3. The Hyde Street Run (D. Zeitlin)
4. Here's That Rainy Day (J. Burke/J. Van Heusen)
5. I Got Rhythm (I. Gershwin/G. Gershwin)
6. Maiden Voyage (H. Hancock)
7. Offshore Breeze (D. Zeitlin)
8. Night And Day (Cole Porter)
9. Mirage (D. Zeitlin)
DENNY ZEITLING piano
JOE HALPIN bass (1-6) (8)
CHARLIE HADEN bass (7) (9)
OLIVER JOHNSON drums (1-6) (8)
JERRY GRANELLI drums (7) (9)
Recorded April 11 and March 18, 1967
Columbia CS 9548