Sunday, 12 April 2020

By request, Harvie Swartz - Underneath It All (1982)




This was requested along with some others from him I found and will share too.
The lovely cover photo shows the reflection of an autumnal treestump in a pond with a carp (koi).
The music is that typical intelligent ECM-like jazz usually called "contemporary jazz" augmented by a lovely cello in places, but not really fusion, my favourite style of music.  Information is here.  Most compositions are by Harvie, who btw is a bassist.  His output is quite significant.

Born : December 06, 1948 in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Harvie worked with : Al Cohn & Zoot Sims, Mose Allison, Jackie Paris, Thad Jones, Gil Evans, Lee Konitz, Barry Miles Silverlight, David Friedman, Steve Kuhn, Paul Motian and others.
From 1980 he recorded also as a leader.

I really enjoyed this album and it is worth listening several times to catch all the ideas he put in it. The track called Firewalk:


6 comments:


  1. mp3s

    https://www34.zippyshare.com/v/kchtKbSd/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/mk9u5x

    losslesses

    https://we.tl/t-o3GvoLbcWj



    Another called Chartreuse, in which he accompanies jazz pianist Bob Degen

    https://www85.zippyshare.com/v/n3WRLSCU/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/t6tul3



    From before, 2 more albums from Harvie Swartz called Texas Rumba and Smart Moves:

    https://www86.zippyshare.com/v/dVIjSays/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/sjk22w



    new upload of the dreaded ReR Vol.3 No.2 by request (from Dec 2018)

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/qe27vh

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    1. Thanks Julian, glad to fill this gap in my ReR Quarterly collection with their usual clanging and scraping - always a good aural palette cleanser!

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  2. Wow! Happy Easter Julian and thank you, been waiting a long time to hear this again.

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  3. enjoy it, turned out to be pretty good too

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  4. Hey Julian hope your doing good, just stumbled across this looks interesting.

    https://www.discogs.com/Remo-Rau-Project-Voyage-To-The-Stars-Reise-Zu-Den-Sternen/release/3640292

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