Artist: Clare Fischer
Album: Memento
Genre: Hard Bop, Latin Jazz, World Fusion
Label: Discovery Records
Released: 1992
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Basic Blues (Fischer) - 4:39
- A Long Time Ago (Fischer) - 4:33
- Blues Bossa (Fischer) - 6:47
- Preludio (Cytrynowicz) - 4:05
- If You Could See Me Now (Dameron-Sigman) - 6:25
- Fugue (Fischer) - 3:55
- Blues in G (Fischer) - 4:05
- My First Waltz (Cytrynowicz) - 4:42
- Giant Steps (Coltrane) - 3:26
- Old Folks (Robison) - 3:55
- Jeru (Mulligan) - 3:39
- Pat's Blues (Fischer) - 4:38
- Memento (Fischer) - 6:12
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Clare Fischer has inherited the crown from Cal Tjader as Latin music's leading non-Latin bandleader and figure. These 13 selections, pulled from three Fischer albums done in the late '60s and early and mid-'80s, show Fischer's straight jazz and big band work. It does include the title song and "Preludio," but this is mostly straight-ahead swing, bop, and cool fare, with nice reworkings of such anthems as "Giant Steps," "Jeru," and "Old Folks." His band contains many West Coast household names, like Bill Perkins, Gary Foster, and Bud Shank, plus bassist John Patitucci on board part-time.
Review by Ron Wynn