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By Hank Shteamer

At the level with the smoke at the end of January, the All-Star of the Septtes, the chefs were installed at maximum speed. The catalyst: his drummer, Billy Hart, who caused rhythmic swirls and hit stinky saucer accents while solving the random saxophonist Lawrence with an impatient smile of warmth.

In “Just”, a new album of Hart’s long data quartet, released on Friday, shows a component of this intensity in a more discreet appearance, the game along the vanguard musicians a quarter of a century or more youthful: the saxophonist Mark Turner, the pianist Ethan Iiverson and the bassist Ben Street, and the sound feature: without sound. and contemporary.

“He is a music student without stopping and completed,” Turner said about Hart, 84, in a telephone interview. While Hart’s taste is based on the many times on which he activates, he continued: “He has not replaced his language at all that is based on a period. “

The bass player Buster Williams has been running with Hart since the early 1960s, he assembles him for the first time in a concert with singer Betty Carter and later aligning with him in many other contexts, adding the Mwandihi group, Herbie Hancock, the Sext-Jazz Sext in the early 1970s. “He has this new understanding of things,” he said Williams in a telephone interview. “His vision is impatient. “

Outside the Global of Jazz, Hart is largely unknown. But in the genre, where the classmates and enthusiasts call it Jabali, or “rock”, one of the Swahili nicknames granted to the members of the MWANDII organization through their spouse James Mtume, its esteem is almost university, a prestige reflected in a national endowment of 2022 for the mastery albums in Jazz and its extraordinarily broad discography.

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