Hilary Noble - Noble Savage

[ormsbop]

Noble Savage
2002 - whaling city sound

Personnel:

Hilary Noble - saxophones, percussion
Bobby Sanabria - drums, percussion
John DiMartino- piano
Boris Kozlov - acoustic bass
Charles Neville (guest)- saxophones

All compositions arranged by Noble and Sanabria

Tracks:
1 the Fire Next Time (Noble)
2 Rumb'azul (Noble)
3 Relapse (Noble)
4 Jelly Roll (Mingus)
5 Guiro Moderno (Sanabria/Noble)
6 Seven Effects of Highly Habitual People (Noble)
7 Ile-Olerun (Noble)
8 (N)eurotrash (Noble)
9 Dream Dance (McWain)
10 Sandunga Mofongo (Noble)
11 Terra Australis (Noble)

Co-produced by Noble and Sanabria


Has anyone heard this recording or heard of Hilary? "Noble Savage" was his debut recording as a leader with Bobby Sanabria's band. It came out last fall to good writeups from the Boston press and it recently got a positive review in the last Jazztimes (may issue). I think the Jazz Improv magazine published one of his charts.

Hilary calls his music "free latin jazz" (with tongue-in-cheek) although it's maybe more "post-cubop"?. I don't know what to compare it to but I like it. He's played around the Boson area mostly as a sideman throughout much of the 90s so I doubt he's much known outside of the area.

Hot band, great Afro-Cuban influenced percussion, and good originals. Very cool guy. I knew him a bit before he quit his day job. He's as much a percussionist as he is a hornplayer. In fact percussion was his first instrument when he went to Berklee in the late 70s. He picked up the sax while at Berklee. Later studied with sax w/ Yusef Lateef at UMass and with Cuban percussion master Maximino Duquesne.

I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts on the recording or Hilary's music if you know him.

[Mike Schwartz]

I only know Hilary thru this recording, but like it very much.We had it on our playlist when it first came out at KSJS, San Jose

#6 gets my vote for 'song title of the year'

Whaling City Sound a terrific * young* label, a growing number of very fine recordings coming from them...

[ormsbop]

Hey cool! thanks Mike. I don't know the west coast at all. Is that an npr or college station? "Seven Effects..." is one of my favorite tracks on the CD.

I wasn't aware of the whaling city sound before this cd. they do have some interesting stuff on their website. Maybe check some of that out. Looking forward to Hil's next release.

[Mike Schwartz]

We're university radio at San Jose State U.
celebrating 40 continuous years in '03!

[alankin]

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[ormsbop]

Originally posted by alankin
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What's your point?