Live at Smalls Tim Ries

• 1 The Last Kabbalist Of Lisbon (Live) 19:26
• 2 A Summer To Remember (Live) 15:28
• 3 New View (Live) 05:31
• 4 Schubert String Quartet #14 In D Minor: Death And The Maiden (Live) 25:45
• 5 Prelude To Bach Cello Suite (Live) 02:21
• Total Runtime 01:08:31

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On Live at Smalls, the 52-year-old Ries leads an acoustic quintet and splits time between tenor and soprano saxophones. He’s put himself in closer contact with the jazz tradition, but still treats the genre as a tool rather than a domain. The first three tracks are Ries originals, ranging from swinging postbop (“A Summer to Remember”) to straight-eighths progressivism (“The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon”) to Metheny-esque folk resplendency (“New View”). The remaining two tracks are rooted in Western classical: a Ries arrangement of Franz Schubert’s lieder masterwork, “Death and the Maiden,” and a fleeting solo piano finale by Kalman Olah, “Prelude to Bach Cello Suite.” The quintet is rounded out by two longtime Ries collaborators, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Billy Drummond, and the ever-bracing tenor saxophonist Chris Potter.

The interplay between Ries and Potter is strongest when the bandleader picks up the soprano and clears out the lower register for his comrade. On “Death and the Maiden,” both sax men push with a common urgency, waxing gleeful and waning desperate. Ries’ more ornamental playing squirms and flutters, offset by Potter’s anchored, steelier tenor. (jazztimes.com)

Tim Ries, soprano saxophone
Chris Potter, tenor saxophone
Kálmán Oláh, piano
John Patitucci, bass
Billy Drummond, drums

Recorded Live at Smalls Jazz Club, December 3 & 4, 2010.

Tim Ries
Saxophonist, composer, arranger, producer and educator Tim Ries received degrees from both The University of North Texas (BM) and The University of Michigan (MM). He has had a unique and varied career, which began in 1983 with the great Maynard Ferguson.

Tim moved to New York City in 1985 and since that time his performing and recording credits include a who’s who of jazz, rock, pop and world music icons: The Rolling Stones from 1999 to the present, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Donald Fagen, Michael Jackson, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Rod Stewart, Lyle Lovette, and jazz greats Red Garland, Donald Byrd, Hank Jones, Jack DeJohnette, Phil Woods, Tom Harrell, Chico Hamilton, Michael Brecker, Joe Henderson, Tony Bennett, Louie Bellson, Dave Liebman, Al Foster, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez, Bela Szakcsi Lakatos and Maria Schneider.

Tim was a member of the Prism Saxophone Quartet from 1993-2003. He has released 9 CDs as a leader. His last two discs, Tim Ries Quintet and Tim Ries Quintet Vol II, are live perfomances at Smalls Jazz Club. In 2005 and 2008 respectively, he released The Rolling Stones Project (Concord) and Stones World (Sunnyside), both are his versions of Stones classics arranged in jazz and world music genres. Both CDs have drawn rave reviews across the globe.

Some of the guest artists featured on these discs include: all four Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Milton Nascimento, Sara Baras, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, Lisa Fischer, Bernard Fowler, Larry Goldings, Franck Amsallem, Eddie Palmieri, Brian Blade and Ana Moura. His latest colaborations are performing with the great flamenco dancer Sara Baras and with The East Gipsy Band from Budapest.

Tim has taught saxophone and composition at The New School, Rutgers University, The City University of New York and The University of Toronto.

Tim Ries plays Francois Louis mouthpieces, reeds and ligatures and The Virtuoso tenor and alto saxophones by RS Berkely.

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