Bob Mover & Walter Davis Jr. – The Salerno Concert (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:27 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
Reel To Real returns with more top notch live archival music from Bob Mover and Walter Davis Jr. Recorded in Salerno, the recording beautifully captures the short-lived duo association between two musical legends deserving greater attention.
Be-bop pianist Walter Davis Jr. was a protege of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and a veteran of groups led by Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean and others. He also recorded as a leader for Blue Note in 1959.
Bob Mover resides in New York where he teaches and plays. He has played with The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz and Esperanza Spalding. Mover and Davis were long-time friends, first forging their musical partnership in 1987 touring together in Europe where they played festivals and concerts in France, Switzerland, Holland, and Italy where this album was recorded. They also toured the U.S. and at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1989 until Davis’ untimely death in 1990.
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Walter Davis Jr. – Davis Cup (1959/2010)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 38:08 minutes | 1.5 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: acousticsounds.com | Booklet & Front cover | © Blue Note Records
Although a Blue Note regular at the time on sessions by Donald Byrd, Art Blakey and others, Walter Davis made only one album for the label. With Byrd, Jackie McLean, Sam Jones and Art Taylor, he explores six of his finest compositions. Davis possessed the ability to write music that was funky and catchy, but still progressive, which explains why he was one of Art Blakey’s favorite pianists and composers. “Minor Mind,” “Make It” and “Millie’s Delight” are among the album’s highlights.
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Walter Davis Jr. – Davis Cup (1960) [APO Remaster 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 38:00 minutes | Scans included | 1,55 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 762 MB
Walter Davis, Jr.’s debut record as a leader for Blue Note is a terrific hard bop session, a driving collection of six original tunes that emphasize the strengths not only of the pianist himself, but also his supporting band: trumpeter Donald Byrd, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Art Taylor. Apart from the lovely ballad “Sweetness,” Davis Cup moves along at a brisk pace, with the rhythm section urging the soloists to new heights. Byrd has rarely sounded better, and on this date McLean provides ample evidence that he was moving beyond the conventions of hard bop and developing his own unique style. Davis, of course, does more than acquit himself — he contributes an engaging, energetic performance that keeps the music grounded. His compositions are just as captivating, whether it’s the swinging “Rhumba Nhumba” or the darkly invigorating “Minor Mind.” It all adds up to a wonderful straight-ahead hard bop date, one that’s so good it’s a wonder that Davis didn’t receive another chance to lead a session until 1979.
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