Bei Downbeat gab man dem Weston Bohemia Album damals ***1/2 Sterne… Im gleichen Heft bekamen vier Alben die vollen *****, Basie in London, Miles Ahead, Thelonious Himself und The Stylings of Silver… Hier ist was Dom Cerulli damals in seiner Rezension schrieb…
It appears that with each recorded outing, Randy is getting closer and closer to the excitement and drive he is projecting on his in-person appearances lately.
I feel he is still in a period of transition, perhaps in its final stages, and is emerging with something representatively his own.. In Chessman’s Delight, a Weston original, there appears to be more of today’s Weston than in the standards. Riff is a swinging thing, and Hold ’Em Joe is a calypso. Payne’s usually authoritative horn is rather pallid on the four tracks on which he appears. He has been more impressive.
The set was recorded at the Cafe Bohemia, and sound is, on the whole, quite good. When Randy cuts some of his moody, searching, broken-time originals with his present group, look for the start of something else in piano-led small groups.
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Randy Weston – Carnival
viel spaeter, 1974, mit Billy Harper, William Allen (b), Don Moye und Steve Berrios (perc)
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