Harvey Mason - Changing Partners (Trios 2)

Harvey Mason — Changing Partners: Trios 2

180-gram one-step plating LP

Changing Partners is a straight-ahead jazz trio album by the legendary Grammy-nominated drummer and composer Harvey Mason, one of the most recorded drummers of all time in any genre.

A former member of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters band — for whom he co-wrote the hit "Chameleon" — and a co-founder of the contemporary jazz group Fourplay, on Changing Partners: Trios Mason leads different trios using a rotating cast of musical collaborators.

Changing Partners: Trios 2 is the follow-up to the legendary debut and is in no way inferior to it in terms of quality — quite the opposite: ‘Changing Partners: Trios 2' is an outstanding, multi-layered and varied straight-ahead jazz trio album that not only thrives on the virtuoso versatility of the bandleader, but also on the rotating line-up of musical collaborators. These include greats such as Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Dave Grusin, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Buster Williams. With a mix of fresh takes on beloved jazz standards ("Sweet And Lovely") and original material ("Midnight Stroll"), Mason has created an album that, as he says, was "made with love."

A vibrant celebration of the piano trio's importance in the history of jazz, Changing Partners also affirms the enduring legacy of the Great American Songbook while testifying to Mason's incredible chameleon-like versatility and quest for musical excellence.

Evosound is now presenting Changing Partners: Trios 2 as a high-quality one-step plating LP, cut at 33 1/3 RPM and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl — the long overdue sonic match for this fantastic jazz document!

 

Side A

1. Change Partners -With James Genus & Jacky Terrasson

2. Sweet and Lovely - with Stanley Clarke & Gonzalo Rubalcaba

3. Mean Old Man - with Buster Williams & Eric Scott Reed

4. Hilda Plays - with Thomas Fonnesback & Lars Jansson

Side B

1. Waltz for Dave - with Dave Carpenter & Chick Corea

2. You Don't Know What Love Is - with James Genus & Jacky Terrasson

3. Midnight Stroll - with Thomas Fonnesback & Lars Jansson

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