TERRY PLUMERI: Blue In Green

Terry Plumeri

Blue In Green

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"Terry Plumeri's bowed bass work is endlessly compelling" allaboutjazz.com - Bill Evans style jazz standards featuring the bowed acoustic bass played with an extraordinary beauty of tone and technical proficiency.

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"Terry Plumeri's bowed bass work is endlessly compelling. Pair it with musicians the caliber of David Goldblatt (piano) and the great Joe La Barbera (drums) on a choice selection of standards and the effect is stunning."
-Allaboutjazz.com

"Blue In Green is an album bubbling with creativity, interactivity, magnificent improvisations, and the combined experience, sensitivity, and desire of three consummate musicians performing eight essential pieces from the jazz and standard repertoire."
-Jazz Improv Magazine-

“Plumeri bows his way through some amazing improvisations.”
-Musicweb-International.com


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  • music like no other
    author: Eric Swanson

    Terry Plumeri has been playing the bass with unparalleled virtuosity for decades. His vocal, penetrating solo work can be heard on Roberta Flack's Chapter Two (dating from the '70's), for example. His earlier solo jazz releases, "He Who Lives in Many Places" and "Ongoing" (recently re-released on CD as "Water Garden") displayed the defining virtuosity that has made Terry legendary among musicians. They also shared some of his beautifully crafted compositions. One of the great musical minds of our time, Plumeri may be best known now as an orchestral composer and conductor. Before his considerable success in these areas, however, he redefined bass playing, taking the instrument where nobody else had ever gone - true vocal freedom; the ability to play any idea he conceived, beautifully. This is not a bass player's record - this is a great composer's and musician's record who happens to be a bass virtuoso. Listen to it as if it were John Coltrane or Miles Davis - he plays with that level of freedom, sophistication, and craft. Many bassists have ground out scratchy licks and chomped out catchy riffs on the bowed instrument. Others have mastered the classical and baroque solo literature with lovely tone and intonation. Still others have composed and conducted. Nobody else has ever played bowed jazz solos with such intonation, tone, and pure vocal freedom. His accomplishment is unique, intensely beautiful, and musically ground-breaking. While he has been exploring and developing this territory for decades, here is a powerful record of his recent work, beautifully recorded. This is a record that people will listen to decades from now and wonder at Plumeri's genius. It is easily the most significant jazz bass recording since Bill Evans' "Sunday at the Village Vanguard."

  • One of the greatest voices on the bass!
    author: David Johns

    Terry Plumeri is one of the greatest voices on the bass in the history of jazz bass playing. There is no other voice like his!

  • Fabulous
    author: Jon Drossos

    Absolutely loved this CD. Plumeri's arranging is outstanding. Truly an acoustic bass master. Every one of the traditional selections was extremely well done. There is not a single dud on the CD. Love it more each time I listen to Blue in Green.

  • Plumeri bows his way through some amazing improvisations!
    author: Don Mather

    Terry Plumeri is probably better known as a composer and conductor of film scores, but this recording displays his talents as a virtuoso bass player. He certainly bows his way through some amazing improvisations and he is aided and abetted in no uncertain terms, by some excellent playing from David Goldblatt and Joe La Berbera.

  • Mesmerizing in its originality...
    author: Julianne Wick Davis

    Rarely does a new interpretation of jazz standards stop you in your tracks; however, Plumeri''s new CD is mesmerizing in its originality. As cool as the title suggests, Blue in Green offers familiar tunes washed in a new tone color...a color I have only found in the smooth, soloistic sound of Plumeri's string bass. His technique is flawless and natural. I'm recommending it to every faded-blue jazz musician and fresh-green jazz enthusiast I know.

  • a true classic in its genre
    author: Joe Donahue

    Upon first listen, I realized this is what jazz is all about again. Warm, soothing, sweet and cheerfull. The instrumentation and songs are traditional, but the playing is phenominal and creative (who else plays a bowed bass?) It simply leaves you gasping for more. I cannot to get this to come out of my cd player. Finally a great jazz record again.

  • Great!! I loved it
    author: Brian Sims
  • Really great. Great adition to my collection!
    author: Pat Younkin

    I really enjoyed listening to this CD. It's well worth the money. Hope to get more bythis artist.

  • In the 1970's Terry was already acknowledged as the dominant innovator of Arco B
    author: Allen Houser - Straight Ahead Records

    It's great to hear Terry's new CD. In the 1970's, with drummer Mike Smith, we did a lot of playing together. My wish would be that he combine his skills in orchestration and compostion and follow up with something akin to Eddie Daniel's rendering of "The Four Seasons." In the meantime, don't wait. Buy and enjoy this wonderful CD. Paul Chambers would be sending him flowers if he was still with us.

  • author: vicki mcclure doney

    brilliant...so full of beauty & longing... that's what i want to hear......yeah Terrry!!!

  • Plumeri and those he plays with will never cease to amaze
    author: Eadie Anelli

    If you are looking for something really worth listening to, this is it. It doesn't get better than this.... the nuances and improv bowed bass of Plumeri, combined with the ensemble of Goldblatt and la Barbera give the listeners an all too rare treat. This will leave you wanting more. Tell someone you love. Better yet, get it for them.

  • warm, rich, great playing
    author: howard leshaw

    creates a warm mood . sound envelopes you like classical music but is jazz at the highest level. shows off bass as a lead instrument without showing off

  • A truly innovative recording!
    author: Bill Davidson

    This cd is one of the most innovative recordings in jazz! All aspiring and experienced jazz bassists could benefit from listening to Terry Plumeri's technique and proficiency. Very fine playing from David Goldblatt and Joe La Barbera too. This one's a classic.

  • Superior Trio.
    author: Marty Olachea

    Every song has something special. Each member of this group is a superior musician. Great choice of tunes that show their versatility. The bowing in Autumn Leaves of Terry Plumeri is clean and clear with great facility. Joe LaBarbara gets better and better. Goldblatt plays with sensitivity. Beautiful!

  • fresh-innovative-and fun to listen to. Something new in Jazz
    author: Dick Webster
  • I am grateful to have heard this amazing CD
    author: Anna

    This is absolutely amazing. Not only does this group cook - so enjoyable-each player, piano,bass,and drums,but the bass player’s bowing blew me away. His bowing flows like a comfortable friend, but what we receive is exciting and comforting at the same time. He provides us with sounds we are not used to hearing from bass.I heard voice and horns throughout. I’ve never heard anything like this before and cannot imagine the ability that it takes for a bassist to accomplish this. I’ve been listening to jazz for years and this is the best treat for me that I remember. Thanks to my friend who told me to listen to this.

  • This will make a fresh turn in jazz that has been needed.
    author: H.O. Choyce

    This is not just another good jazz trio recording that we can love. It is a “Must listen to”. This is innovative, especially in that Plumeri on bass is speaking to us in his bowing on bass, in a beautiful tone that is often sensual and always expressive. It cannot escape us as we listen, the powerful dynamic that drives many of the selections on this recording. The trio is so delicately connected that each tune is expressed in a way that makes us appreciate each player. I love the way that Goldblatt and La Barbara on piano & drums contribute to the bass driven arrangements. They are each a delight throughout the entire recording. After 35 years of serious appreciation of jazz, this is one of the best of jazz recordings I’ve heard.

  • Every jazz musician and jazz lover should hear this !
    author: M. Crutchfield

    It doesn’t matter if you are a seasoned jazz musician, listener, or someone new to the genre, be prepared for a listening experience like you’ve never had before. It’s fresh, inspiring, deliciously satisfying, and will leave you hungry to listen again and again, and hope for more to come. The huge bonus is in Plumeri’s incredible bowing on bass which gives us his deep emotional range of voice on his instrument that speaks to us, entices and deeply moves us. Let’s pass the word on so this recording will be listened to.

  • Hauntingly addictive bass, a mosaic of tonal colors and textures
    author: Lakeside Music Room: Sally

    Plumeri's new Blue In Green CD with La Barbara and Goldblatt transports the listener to a dimly lit room with dancers shadowing the shimmering blend of tonal textures to create a romantic illusion of suspension of time. The beautiful bowed bass dances across the strings, creating a arousal of the senses enticing creative interludes with the piano and pecussion.

  • author: John

    This is a remarkable cd, performed by remarkable musicians. I've heard lots of jazz bassists who are proficient with arco playing, but none that approach the lyricism that Plumeri captures. I'd recommend this to anyone, great jazz, great music.

  • Great Jazz Trio!
    author: Patty

    Great jazz trio with awesome bass playing!!! Great piano solos!!! Great drum solos!!!

  • Great Jazz Trio!
    author: Patty

    Great jazz trio with awesome bass playing!!! Great piano solos!!! Great drum solos!!!

  • Mesmerizing in its originality...
    author: Julianne Wick Davis

    Rarely does a new interpretation of jazz standards stop you in your tracks; however, Plumeri’s new CD is mesmerizing in its originality. As cool as the title suggests, Blue in Green offers familiar tunes washed in a new tone color...a color I have only found in the smooth, soloistic sound of Plumeri's string bass. His technique is flawless and natural. I'm recommending it to every faded-blue jazz musician and fresh-green jazz enthusiast I know.

  • The greatest bowed solos!
    author: Dorie

    Terry Plumeri has no equal when it comes to bowed bass solos - he's absolutely the greatest. You have never heard the bass played like this or sound like this. He is to the bass what John Coltrane was to the saxophone!

  • Extraordinary bowing facility
    author: Jazz Improv Magazine

    Plumeri continues to ply his skill at developing the vocal quality of the bass, through his extraordinary bowing facility.

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