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mark soskin: piano / john patitucci: bass / chris potter: saxophone / bill stewart: drums
special guest: john abercrombie: guitar
1.on the street where you live (f. loewe/j. lerner)
2.bemsha swing (t. monk)
3.innerspace (chick corea)
4.one hopeful day
5.step lively
6.it's easy to remember (l. hart/r. rodgers)
7.end of a love affair (e. redding)
8.strive
9.pensativa (s.d. fischer)
With One Hopeful Day, it becomes abundantly clear that pianist Mark Soskin has learned one primary lesson from his many sideman gigs: how to stock your ensemble with the best and the brightest. His quartet on this album includes Chris Potter, recognized as possibly the leading saxophonist of his generation through his own records and his work with Dave Douglas, Dave Holland, Steely Dan, and Paul Motian; bassist John Patitucci, whose thick, rubbery sound may be one of the only that can stand up to Soskin's jabbing left hand, and has also buoyed the likes of B.B. King, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Stan Getz; and the remarkably intuitive Bill Stewart, longtime drummer for John Scofield, who has also worked with Maceo Parker, Joe Lovano, and Dave Holland.
One Hopeful Day begins and ends with Soskin’s delicate, emotional solo piano. The album kicks off with a brief, hushed introduction which suddenly takes off at a gallop as Stewart begins a skittering rhythm over which Potter blows a sauntering "On the Street Where You Live," the first of Soskin’s radical rearrangements of well-known melodies. Even more drastically reimagined is Thelonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing," taken at a jittering, stop-start pace, with an interlude newly composed by the leader.