Drawing primarily from the hard bop tradition with Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, New Orleans Second Line, Oakland Funk, Blues & Gospel

9 MP3 Songs in this album (45:44) !
Related styles: Jazz: Post-Bop, Jazz: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Featuring Drums

People who are interested in Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenge John Coltrane Miles Davis should consider this download.


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Towner Galaher
Courageous Hearts
self-released
Yeah, YEAH, THIS is how to make a great jazz album! Courageous Hearts practically
explodes with many of the qualities that attracted me to jazz in the first placeâ
swing/pulse/groove; a raw, aching/restless passion, unpredictability, and for the lack of a
better term, a âcry,â an almost primal, indefinable whatsis that reaches past the frontal
lobes down into your (dare I say it) soul. Drummer/composer Galaher (the disc is mostly
originals) is carrying on (intentionally or not) the legacies of Art Blakey and Horace Silverâ
stylistically, Hearts is hard bop with a
strong current of blues and gospel roots
throughout. The tunes are dynamic and immediate,
the playing bright, resolute, vigorous, and
animated. A dynamo without being a showoff,
Galaher drives the proceedings the way Blakey
drove his Messengers and Keith Moon did the
Whoâ¦and what a band heâs got: Craig Handy
(tenor), Fred Wesley, from James Brownâs JBs
(trombone), Brian Lynch (trumpet), the Tyneresque
George Colligan (keys), and Charles Fambrough
(bass). This is one of the few jazz discs
in recent years I can hear in its entirety and
then, play it again, Sam. Donât miss this.
Mark Kerseman Icon