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Review ROMANCE SERENADE celebrates Dale Fielder's maturity as a composer. His devotional suite, "Ocean of Love and Mercy" (Cadence), revealed an ability to compose a complex and compelling extended song structure. ROMANCE SERENADE furthers Fielder's achievement with standard lyric forms. Four of the ten songs here are Fielder's. A major thematic subtext of the album is signaled in its title. The emphasis throughout is cheerful, searching, and joyfully moody. Its optimism is captured by each of Fielder's song titles. This joyful mood is not associated with the gaudy crawl of one evening's passion. It reflects the glow of a grown man's love for friendships carefully chosen, caringly nurtured. This ten song tour of the quartet's sweet brooding, one spring evening in balmy Southern California, gives permanence to the magic of restrained exuberance. We overhear four musicians at their radiant best. The optimism found throughout ROMANCE SERENADE, luckily, was captured by BluePort Records. It was scripted from amorous musical notations whose declaration of faith in the grand jazz tradition Dale Fielder's writing here pays homage to. That faith, its optimism, constructs a personal serenade of good feeling that reckons its fortune in the midst of life's fullness, for awhile, forever, with courage and artistic strength. -- JIM MEROD - November 9, 1999 About the Artist Dale Fielder has earned a position in the front ranks of saxaphonists on the West Coast over the span of the last ten-plus years. His quartets and large ensembles have played virtually every important venue on the coast. The Dale Fielder Quartet has enjoyed the spotlight at jazz festivals in Europe, Asia and the United States. Published critical accolades have showered Fielder with praise at an increasing frequency and with rising enthusiasm. All of this plots the skyward trajectory of an artist whose good taste and exceptional accomplishments as a player, and a composer, are at the height on this album, Fielder's second for BluePort and sixth overall. Band members: Dale Fielder - alto, soprano & tenor saxaphones Jane Getz - piano Trevor Ware - bass Thomas White - drums
Dale Fielder is slowing but surely inching his way into the realm of greatness,not just as a performer but a marvelous composer.these compositions represent the maturity, perserverance and courage it takes to hang-in, when all others tend to compromise the artform by homogenizing their music for money. Not Dale, he has taken the acid test and passed with flying colors and is on his way to the ranks of saxophonists like John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson. that rare breed, where you're only limited by short sightness and blinded by dreams of big bucks.Romance captures all the essence of a classic miles or Cannonball Addeley, with a spike of Trane.His Choice of sidemen has a lot to do with it as well. legendaryformer Mingus piano player, Jane Getz(No Relation)Thomas White ,drums; Trevor Ware, Bass, makes for great team or family if you will. They bring a certan element that is missing from some of today's so call jazz artist,when it comes to passion for their craft.All of the songs recorded on Blueport by Fieder here could easily be considered for best song by a jazz performer, but we know that is not possible wihout the real jazz fans stepping forward and protesting the way jazz is treated these days.Fielder's next project promises to bigger and better than ROMANCE SERENADE, if that's possible...?
