Sidewalk Meeting


Sidewalk Meeting is an album by saxophonist Ted Nash which was recorded in 2000 and released on the Arabesque label the following year.

Reception

The AllMusic review by David R. Adler said "With Sidewalk Meeting, saxophonist Ted Nash premieres a new, highly unconventional group called Odeon.... Odeon seamlessly integrates the different sides of Nash's musical personality, and that's just the kind of bridge-building that modern jazz needs". On All About Jazz, Mark Corotto observed "Nash, a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, arranged this unique blend of music and instrumentation. His bass clarinet winds around the plunger trombone of Wycliffe Gordon, Miri Ben-Ari’s violin and William Schimmel’s accordion throughout. They open with Debussy mined from New Orleans by way of an Argentinean tango. Nash whets your appetite for the possibilities of this band, then delivers". In JazzTimes, Aaron Steinberg wrote "On Sidewalk Meeting, Odeon demonstrates such a strong sound identity that when they cover Ellington’s “Amad”, Monk's “Bemsha Swing” and even Debussy's “Premier Rhapsody,” they make it sound as if the material were written specifically for them".

Track listing

All compositions by Ted Nash except where noted
  1. "Premiere Rhapsodie" – 9:06
  2. "Jump Line" – 7:29
  3. "Reverie" – 4:46
  4. "Tango Sierra" – 7:58
  5. "Sidewalk Meeting" – 4:25
  6. "Amad" – 7:25
  7. "Bemsha Swing" – 5:39
  8. "Summer Night in the Deep South" – 3:16
  9. "Sidewalk Meeting " – 2:43

Personnel