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Greg Chako - Standard Roots (2024) [Hi-Res]

Greg Chako - Standard Roots (2024) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Greg Chako

  • Title: Standard Roots
  • Year Of Release: 2024
  • Label: Mint 400 Records
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks) [48kHz/24bit]
  • Total Time: 1:37:58
  • Total Size: 1.01 GB / 496 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Just Friends (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (04:44)
2. I'll Be Around (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (04:52)
3. Out Of Nowhere (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (04:32)
4. I Should Care (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (05:11)
5. It Might As Well Be Spring (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (07:23)
6. Ill Wind (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (05:01)
7. O Grande Amor (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (05:17)
8. Cedar's Blues (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (04:59)
9. Triste (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (06:06)
10. Solar (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (04:50)
11. Star Eyes (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (08:08)
12. It Could Happen To You (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (05:19)
13. That's All (feat. Greg Chako Trio) (07:12)
14. Beatrice (feat. Greg Chako Trio) [Bonus Track] (04:26)
15. I'm Old Fashioned (feat. Greg Chako Trio) [Bonus Track] (06:22)
16. Triste (feat. Greg Chako Trio) [Alt. Bonus Track] (05:55)
17. Just Friends (feat. Greg Chako Trio) [Alt. Bonus Track] (07:35)


Guitarist Greg Chako’s 17th CD, Standard Roots, contains over 72 minutes of music, with additional ‘bonus tracks’ on the digital version of the album.
Standard Roots represents a return to what Greg Chako calls his “roots,” because it features the trio format of guitar, bass, and drums that he began his professional playing career with over 30 years ago.

Standards are the feature here, but Greg alternates the time feels of each track between Swing, Latin, and Ballad. Typical swingers like Just Friends, and bossa-novas like Jobim’s Triste are interpreted as expected, where as a couple old standbys like Out of Nowhere and It Might as Well Be Spring are given a fresh, upbeat Latin treatment. Besides the songs typically considered as being from The Great American Songbook, there is a blues: Cedar Walton’s “Cedar’s Blues,” and two modern jazz compositions: “Solar” by Chuck Wayne, and “Beatrice” by Sam Rivers (one of the bonus tracks). Other stand-outs not heard so often are Alec Wilders’ “I’ll be Around” and Arlens’ “Ill Wind.”


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