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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name = Ode to O
| name = Lucky Man: Music from the Film
| type = album
| type = soundtrack
| artist = OGJB Quartet
| artist = [[Billy Bang]]
| cover =
| cover =
| alt =
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| released = 2022
| released = 2021
| recorded = June 7–8, 2019
| recorded = 2008
| venue =
| venue =
| studio = [[Walter_Sear#Sear_Sound|Sear Sound Studios]], New York City
| studio = Various locations in Vietnam
| genre = [[Free jazz]]
| genre = [[Jazz]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[world music]]
| length = 1:02:50
| length =
| label = TUM Records<br>CD 058
| label = [[Barely Breaking Even|BBE Music]] / IF Music<br>BBE650ACD
| producer =
| producer =
| chronology = OGJB Quartet
| chronology = [[Billy Bang]]
| prev_title = [[Bamako (album)|Bamako]]
| prev_title = [[Medicine Buddha (album)|Medicine Buddha]]
| prev_year = 2019
| prev_year = 2014
| next_title =
| next_title =
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}}
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'''''Ode to O''''' is the second album by the OGJB Quartet, a collaborative ensemble named after the first letters of the musicians' first names, featuring saxophonist [[Oliver Lake]], cornetist [[Graham Haynes]], double bassist [[Joe Fonda]], and drummer [[Barry Altschul]]. Named after the title track, a tribute to [[Ornette Coleman]], it was recorded on June 7 and 8, 2019, at [[Walter_Sear#Sear_Sound|Sear Sound Studios]] in New York City, and was released in 2022 by TUM Records.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ode-to-o-mw0003616453 |title=OGJB Quartet: Ode to O |website=AllMusic |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/the-ogjb-quartet-oliver-lake-graham-haynes-joe-fonda-barry-altschul/ode-to-o |title=OGJB Quartet - Ode to O |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Tum.htm |title=TUM Records discography |website=JazzLists |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://tumrecords.com/058-ode-to-o |title=The OGJB Quartet / Ode to O / TUM CD 058 |website=TUM Records Music |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
'''''Lucky Man: Music from the Film''''' is the soundtrack to the 2010 film ''Lucky Man'', directed by Jean-Marie Boulet and Markus Hansen, documenting violinist and Vietnam veteran [[Billy Bang]]'s 2008 visit to the country, 40 years after his participation in the [[Vietnam War]] as a [[tunnel rat]]. The album consists of field recordings created during Bang's travels across Vietnam, during which he interacted with local musicians, and came to appreciate the country's culture while at the same time seeking closure for the trauma he experienced during the war. The recording was released in 2021 on vinyl, CD, and as a digital download by [[Barely Breaking Even|BBE Music]] in association with IF Music.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lucky-man-music-from-the-film-mw0003477855 |title=Billy Bang: Lucky Man: Music from the Film |website=AllMusic |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/billy-bang/billy-bang-lucky-man-music-from-the-film |title=Billy Bang - Lucky Man: Music from the Film |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/billy-bang-lucky-man |title=Billy Bang Lucky Man |website=BBE / Bandcamp |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.billybang-luckyman.com |title=Billy Bang Lucky Man |website=Billy Bang Lucky Man |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecarverystudio.com/lucky-man-musical-encounters-of-billy-bang |title='Lucky Man': Musical encounters of Billy Bang |website=The Carvery |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>


==Reception==
==Reception==
{{Music ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[All About Jazz]]''
| rev1 = ''[[All About Jazz]]''
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="aaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/ode-to-o-ogjb-quartet-tum-records |title=The OGJB Quartet: Ode To O |first=John |last=Sharpe |date=May 14, 2022 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="aaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/lucky-man-billy-bang-bbe-records |title=Billy Bang: Lucky Man |first=Karl |last=Ackermann |date=April 27, 2021 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''Jazz Trail''
| rev2 = ''[[Jazzwise]]''
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="jt">{{cite web |url=https://jazztrail.net/blog/ogjb-quartet-ode-to-o-album-review |title=The OGJB Quartet - Ode To O |first=Filipe |last=Freitas |date=May 8, 2019 |website=Jazz Trail |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="jw">{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/review/billy-bang-lucky-man |title=Billy Bang: Lucky Man |first=Kevin |last=Le Gendre |website=Jazzwise |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Jazzwise]]''
| rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="jw">{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/review/the-ogjb-quartet-ode-to-o |title=The OGJB Quartet: Ode To O |first=Daniel |last=Spicer |website=Jazzwise |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev4Score = {{rating|8|10}}<ref name="pm">{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/ogjb-ode-to-o-review |title=Lake, Haynes, Fonda, and Altschul Form an OG Band of Jazz Empathy |first=Will |last=Layman |date=March 14, 2022 |website=PopMatters |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
| rev5 = [[Tom Hull – on the Web]]
| rev5Score = B+<ref>{{cite web |last=Hull |first=Tom |url=https://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2996-Music-Week.html |title=Music Week |date=January 31, 2021 |website=Tom Hull – on the Web |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
}}
}}
In a review for ''[[All About Jazz]]'', John Sharpe wrote: "one of the most striking traits is how much they sound like a band... This is an outfit which merits a longer run than it may get given the difficulty of getting the four principals together."<ref name="aaj"/>
In a review for ''[[Jazzwise]]'', Kevin Le Gendre wrote: "Bang was nothing if not open-minded and his ability to blend a wide range of black music, from hard blues to open avant-garde, serve him well here in the company of skilled traditional players... This is deeply poignant music that offers invaluable catharsis to the horrors of war."<ref name="jw"/>


Will Layman of ''[[PopMatters]]'' stated: "If 'vintage' sometimes means seeming old-fashioned or left behind, then these gentlemen demonstrate that fresh thinking is possible at any age. They play here with an exquisite connection to each other and to music history."<ref name="pm"/>
Karl Ackermann of ''[[All About Jazz]]'' stated: "The music is unlike anything else that Bang had recorded... Bang sometimes sounds like he has conquered his demons, but at other times, his pain is palpable... Bang's trademark acerbic but animated style is peppered with the violinist's inner dialog."<ref name="aaj"/>


Writing for ''Burning Ambulance'', Phil Freeman commented: "The mere fact that there's a second album by this group makes me happy. They've got a unique sound, based entirely on the interplay between the four members' personalities... there's a significant distance between what each of them does in other contexts. So listening to them cross those spaces to find somewhere to meet is what makes this music interesting."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://burningambulance.com/2022/01/21/ogjb-quartet |title=OGJB Quartet |first=Phil |last=Freeman |date=January 21, 2022 |website=Burning Ambulance |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
Writing for ''Strings Magazine'', Greg Cahill called Bang's playing "poignant," and commented: "The personal nature of these field recordings has a healing effect and sheds new light on Bang’s own dogged pursuit of peace."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stringsmagazine.com/review-violinist-billy-bang-lucky-man |title=Review: Billy Bang's 'Lucky Man' Is an Auditory Map of the Violinist's Journey Back to Vietnam |first=Greg |last=Cahill |date=July 2021 |website=Strings Magazine |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>


''[[The Big Takeover]]'''s Michael Toland remarked: "These veteran heavy hitters bring all of their talents to bear on ''Ode to O''... It would be extremely difficult for these players to create bad music in the first place, but it's clear on ''Ode to O'' the extra inspiration they take from each other's presence."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bigtakeover.com/recordings/OGJBQuartetOdetoOTUM |title=OGJB Quartet - Ode to O (TUM) |first=Michael |last=Toland |date=January 18, 2022 |website=The Big Takeover |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
''[[Jazz Journal]]'''s Matthew Wright described the music as "wonderful," with Bang "relating to and recognising the link between the Vietnamese style of playing and sound and his own." He praised the track titled "Mystery of the Mekong," featuring Bang's violin "soaring above a rich aggregation of strings, resonant cellos and almost rhapsodic support from the piano."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2021/05/12/billy-bang-lucky-man |title=Billy Bang: Lucky Man |first=Matthew |last=Wright |date=May 12, 2021 |website=Jazz Journal |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>


In an article for ''[[The Quietus]]'', [[Peter Margasak]] noted that the musicians have found "a bracing freebop sweet spot together," and wrote: "there's an abiding equanimity to the proceedings, imbuing the performances with grace regardless of how fiery things might get... The themes are elegant and memorable, elastic enough to support some fiery blowing and rhythmic dissection."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/31068-immanuel-wilkins-rob-mazurek-marta-sanchez-review |title=Complete Communion: Jazz For January |first=Peter |last=Margasak |date=January 31, 2022 |website=The Quietus |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>
In an article for ''Truth and Lies'', Justin Turford called the album "an extraordinary soundtrack to an extraordinary film about an extraordinary man," with music that is "unlike anything I've heard before." He singled out the track titled "Dan Da," on which Bang's violin joins Duc Dau's [[Đàn đá|dan da]], a stone [[lithophone]], describing it as "the most perfect example of improvisational skill between two masters from different worlds," and noting: "Their elation and excitement is palpable as they push and drive each other to new heights and is a privilege to behold."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.truthandliesmusic.com/magazine/billy-bang-lucky-man-bbe-a-review |title=Billy Bang ''Lucky Man'' (BBE) - A Review |first=Justin |last=Turford |date=May 5, 2021 |website=Truth and Lies |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>

Daniel Spicer of ''[[Jazzwise]]'' praised the title track, calling it "a deceptively conventional hard-bop swinger with a big-grinned ''joie de vivre''," as well as "Da Bang" (dedicated to [[Billy Bang]]), which "bursts out of an extended solo drum intro with an irresistible bass vamp heavy enough to establish its own gravitational field. Serious fun."<ref name="jw"/>

''[[The New York City Jazz Record]]'''s George Kanzler also singled out the title track, on which Altschul and Fonda "mesh, expanding and contracting rhythms like images in a kaleidoscope, Lake and Haynes trading and jamming lines, cornet floating long notes, alto bobbing and weaving, pinching a note, arpeggiating a string of them."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kanzler |first=George |date=April 2022 |title=Reviews |magazine=The New York City Jazz Record |pages=26 |url=https://www.nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr202204.pdf}}</ref>

A writer for ''Glide Magazine'' stated: "OGJB take in both a wide swath of sound and emotion as they journey into startling, ever-unpredictable territory.... the spirit of Coleman's free expression prevails throughout, as if to form a more contemporary but less direct version of the acclaimed quartet [[Old and New Dreams]]... who directly channeled Coleman's music."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://glidemagazine.com/269098/elite-ogjb-quartet-of-acclaimed-improvisers-create-nod-to-ornette-coleman-in-ode-to-o-album-review |title=Elite OGJB Quartet Of Acclaimed Improvisers Create Nod to Ornette Coleman in 'Ode to O' (Album Review) |website=Glide Magazine |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>

Gary Chapin of ''The Free Jazz Collective'' commented: "I'm not going to call it effortless, but there's an ease to the group that comes from their decades of experience and the naturalness of their musical relationships. To me, OGJB represents a great time in the past, and a great time in the present."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.freejazzblog.org/2022/04/the-ogjb-quartet-ode-to-o-tum-records.html |title=The OGJB Quartet: Ode to O |first=Gary |last=Chapin |date=April 28, 2022 |website=The Free Jazz Collective |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>

Jon Garelick of ''[[The Arts Fuse]]'' selected the album as one of the ten best jazz releases of 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artsfuse.org/266318/arts-feature-the-best-jazz-albums-of-2022 |title=Music Feature: The Best Jazz Albums of 2022 |first=Jon |last=Garelick |date=December 19, 2022 |website=The Arts Fuse |access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==


# "Ode to O" (Barry Altschul) – 6:52
# "Lucky Man: Introduction" – 4:10
# "Billy playing with the Banhar Gong Group of Kuntum (traditional and improvised)" – 6:16
# "Justice" (Oliver Lake) – 5:22
# "Me without Bela" (Joe Fonda) – 12:24
# "Lucky Man: Flashback Tunnel Reflections" – 1:26
# "Da Bang" (Barry Altschul) – 9:06
# "Mystery of the Mekong" – 6:59
# "Lucky Man: The Sun Rising - Introduction to Song for Don Cherry" – 1:03
# "The Other Side" (Graham Haynes) – 6:55
# "Caring" (Barry Altschul) – 4:56
# "Song for Don Cherry" – 13:26
# "Lucky Man: Flashback Memories" – 1:45
# "OGJB #3" (Barry Altschul / Joe Fonda / Graham Haynes / Oliver Lake) – 3:53
# "Bass Bottom" (Oliver Lake) – 2:37
# "New Saigon Phunk (Extended Version)" – 11:35
# "Lucky Man: Traditional Vietnamese Catru Music" – 0:59
# "OGJB #4" (Barry Altschul / Joe Fonda / Graham Haynes / Oliver Lake) – 5:10
# "Lucky Man: Billy Reflecting on Memories and Feelings" – 0:51
# "Apaixonado" (Graham Haynes) – 5:10
# "Jungle Lullaby (Live at the Sax n'Art Club)" – 12:26
# "Lucky Man: Quynh Anh Pham's Memories About Her Father" – 1:07
# "Dan Da" – 9:45
# "Lucky Man: Billy Speaking About Music and Art" – 0:47
# "Lucky Man: Flashlight and a 45 Tunnel Memories" – 1:53
# "Lucky Man Title Music: Vietnam 1967 Battle Composition" – 1:06
# "Lucky Man: Teach Me Banhar" – 1:09
# "Traditional Quan Ho" – 5:47
# "Lucky Man: Billy Reflecting on America, Music and Being Left Alone" – 1:05
# "Moments for the KIAMIA (Solo in a Hotel Interior Courtyard)" – 2:30
# "Lucky Man: Quynh Anh Pham Lullaby" – 0:44
# "New Saigon Phunk" – 5:51


== Personnel ==
== Personnel ==
* [[Oliver Lake]] – alto saxophone
* [[Billy Bang]] – violin, voice
* Banhar Gong Group (track 2)
* [[Graham Haynes]] – cornet, electronics
* Hanoi Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tuan Phuong (track 4)
* [[Joe Fonda]] – double bass
* Duc Dau – [[Đàn đá|dan da]] (tracks 6, 8, 13, 22)
* [[Barry Altschul]] – drums, percussion
* Phu Dong Family Band (tracks 6, 8, 9, 22)
* [[Trần Mạnh Tuấn]] – saxophone (track 11)
* Quynh Anh Pham – voice (track 12)
* Cau River Singers – vocals (track 18)


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 20:29, 8 May 2024

Lucky Man: Music from the Film
Soundtrack album by
Billy Bang
Released2021
Recorded2008
StudioVarious locations in Vietnam
GenreJazz, folk, world music
LabelBBE Music / IF Music
BBE650ACD
Billy Bang chronology
Medicine Buddha
(2014) 		Lucky Man: Music from the Film
(2021)

Lucky Man: Music from the Film is the soundtrack to the 2010 film Lucky Man, directed by Jean-Marie Boulet and Markus Hansen, documenting violinist and Vietnam veteran Billy Bang's 2008 visit to the country, 40 years after his participation in the Vietnam War as a tunnel rat. The album consists of field recordings created during Bang's travels across Vietnam, during which he interacted with local musicians, and came to appreciate the country's culture while at the same time seeking closure for the trauma he experienced during the war. The recording was released in 2021 on vinyl, CD, and as a digital download by BBE Music in association with IF Music.[1][2][3][4][5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[6]
Jazzwise[7]

In a review for Jazzwise, Kevin Le Gendre wrote: "Bang was nothing if not open-minded and his ability to blend a wide range of black music, from hard blues to open avant-garde, serve him well here in the company of skilled traditional players... This is deeply poignant music that offers invaluable catharsis to the horrors of war."[7]

Karl Ackermann of All About Jazz stated: "The music is unlike anything else that Bang had recorded... Bang sometimes sounds like he has conquered his demons, but at other times, his pain is palpable... Bang's trademark acerbic but animated style is peppered with the violinist's inner dialog."[6]

Writing for Strings Magazine, Greg Cahill called Bang's playing "poignant," and commented: "The personal nature of these field recordings has a healing effect and sheds new light on Bang’s own dogged pursuit of peace."[8]

Jazz Journal's Matthew Wright described the music as "wonderful," with Bang "relating to and recognising the link between the Vietnamese style of playing and sound and his own." He praised the track titled "Mystery of the Mekong," featuring Bang's violin "soaring above a rich aggregation of strings, resonant cellos and almost rhapsodic support from the piano."[9]

In an article for Truth and Lies, Justin Turford called the album "an extraordinary soundtrack to an extraordinary film about an extraordinary man," with music that is "unlike anything I've heard before." He singled out the track titled "Dan Da," on which Bang's violin joins Duc Dau's dan da, a stone lithophone, describing it as "the most perfect example of improvisational skill between two masters from different worlds," and noting: "Their elation and excitement is palpable as they push and drive each other to new heights and is a privilege to behold."[10]

Track listing

  1. "Lucky Man: Introduction" – 4:10
  2. "Billy playing with the Banhar Gong Group of Kuntum (traditional and improvised)" – 6:16
  3. "Lucky Man: Flashback Tunnel Reflections" – 1:26
  4. "Mystery of the Mekong" – 6:59
  5. "Lucky Man: The Sun Rising - Introduction to Song for Don Cherry" – 1:03
  6. "Song for Don Cherry" – 13:26
  7. "Lucky Man: Flashback Memories" – 1:45
  8. "New Saigon Phunk (Extended Version)" – 11:35
  9. "Lucky Man: Traditional Vietnamese Catru Music" – 0:59
  10. "Lucky Man: Billy Reflecting on Memories and Feelings" – 0:51
  11. "Jungle Lullaby (Live at the Sax n'Art Club)" – 12:26
  12. "Lucky Man: Quynh Anh Pham's Memories About Her Father" – 1:07
  13. "Dan Da" – 9:45
  14. "Lucky Man: Billy Speaking About Music and Art" – 0:47
  15. "Lucky Man: Flashlight and a 45 Tunnel Memories" – 1:53
  16. "Lucky Man Title Music: Vietnam 1967 Battle Composition" – 1:06
  17. "Lucky Man: Teach Me Banhar" – 1:09
  18. "Traditional Quan Ho" – 5:47
  19. "Lucky Man: Billy Reflecting on America, Music and Being Left Alone" – 1:05
  20. "Moments for the KIAMIA (Solo in a Hotel Interior Courtyard)" – 2:30
  21. "Lucky Man: Quynh Anh Pham Lullaby" – 0:44
  22. "New Saigon Phunk" – 5:51

Personnel

  • Billy Bang – violin, voice
  • Banhar Gong Group (track 2)
  • Hanoi Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tuan Phuong (track 4)
  • Duc Dau – dan da (tracks 6, 8, 13, 22)
  • Phu Dong Family Band (tracks 6, 8, 9, 22)
  • Trần Mạnh Tuấn – saxophone (track 11)
  • Quynh Anh Pham – voice (track 12)
  • Cau River Singers – vocals (track 18)

References

  1. ^ "Billy Bang: Lucky Man: Music from the Film". AllMusic. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  2. ^ "Billy Bang - Lucky Man: Music from the Film". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  3. ^ "Billy Bang Lucky Man". BBE / Bandcamp. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  4. ^ "Billy Bang Lucky Man". Billy Bang Lucky Man. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  5. ^ "'Lucky Man': Musical encounters of Billy Bang". The Carvery. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Ackermann, Karl (April 27, 2021). "Billy Bang: Lucky Man". All About Jazz. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  7. ^ a b Le Gendre, Kevin. "Billy Bang: Lucky Man". Jazzwise. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  8. ^ Cahill, Greg (July 2021). "Review: Billy Bang's 'Lucky Man' Is an Auditory Map of the Violinist's Journey Back to Vietnam". Strings Magazine. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  9. ^ Wright, Matthew (May 12, 2021). "Billy Bang: Lucky Man". Jazz Journal. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  10. ^ Turford, Justin (May 5, 2021). "Billy Bang Lucky Man (BBE) - A Review". Truth and Lies. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
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