Sand Underfoot by Jeannette Lambert

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Free Jazz | Jazz Vocals

13 tracks | 59 minutes

Released Feb 2006
on Jazz from Rant

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Montréal-based poet/jazz vocalist Jeannette Lambert's seventh recording as a leader, Sand Underfoot features longtime collaborators, bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Michel Lambert, and special guest, pianist Paul Bley.

Editorial review

Some people like their female jazz singers torch song-like, while others go for the divas. But perhaps you have a sweet spot for flexible voices that remain natural sounding (instead of trying to cram unlikely amounts of feeling in every syllable), along with a fondness for singers who have mastered extended techniques and who have the gracefulness to leave ample room to their musicians. If so, then Jeannette Lambert should fill that sweet spot wonderfully well. Sand Underfoot is a top-notch session involving the singer's husband, drummer Michel Lambert, and two avant-garde jazz legends in bassist Barre Phillips and pianist Paul Bley. The four of them appear as a quartet on only one track, the entirely improvised "Th?o's Pace." The other 12 pieces feature various smaller lineups, ranging from an a cappella song and percussion solos to various duos and trios, some of them without the singer. The undisputable standout track is "Sand Underfoot," a sweet, almost na?ve song starting as a vocals/drum duo, with Bley stepping in halfway through. It sums up all of this album's delicateness, creativity, and telepathic interaction. Other highlights include "Endless Walk," featuring the same trio, the bass/drums duo "Mountain Slide," and the four-part suite "Rim of Fire," built around a moving poem about Indonesia. Despite its cast of experienced improvisers and its "instant composition" qualities, Sand Underfoot remains firmly anchored in jazz, if only by Jeannette Lambert's deep understanding of jazz singing and Michel Lambert's flexible free swing, so there is no need to be afraid. The enhanced portion of the CD includes a home movie for the title track. ~ Fran?ois Couture, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Sand Underfoot

I chose the title of this recording to reflect our tenuous relationship with nature, slip-sliding along, never sure of our footing. Is the ground solid or ever-changing? The poems here all look at our links to earthly places; forests, deserts, beaches, snowy plains, and the rim of fire. Performed with great masters of their instruments, Paul Bley on piano, Barre Phillips on bass and Michel Lambert on drums.

I dedicate the Rim of Fire suite to all of the victims of the Boxing Day 2004 earthquake and tsunami. The central poem of the suite was written several years ago, inspired by my father's family history and their impassioned relationship with Indonesia. We recorded the music a few months before the disaster but somehow it seems as if the danger of that event was already in the air, like a ripple in time reaching back.

So now, take these offerings and twirl them around in your hand, like multi-faceted pebbles on a warm, safe, windswept beach.