Gold Sounds

Gold Sounds is an album by saxophonist James Carter, keyboardist Cyrus Chestnut, drummer Ali Jackson and bassist Reginald Veal performing compositions by the indie rock band Pavement and released on the Brown Brothers label in 2005.[1]

For the Pavement single, see Gold Soundz.
Gold Sounds
Studio album by
James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson, Reginald Veal
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2005
RecordedSeptember 16–19, 2004 by Steven Mandel
StudioElectric Lady Studios, NYC
GenreJazz
Length44:18
LabelBrown Brothers
BBR-CD1
ProducerDM Elkins and Jake Cohn
James Carter chronology
Out of Nowhere
(2005)		 Gold Sounds
(2005)		 Present Tense
(2008)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
All About Jazz[3]

The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard says, "Gold Sounds is an overwhelming success, not just as a tribute but as a jazz album ... If you're a Pavement fan, you owe it to yourself to check out what these guys do with the songbook. If you're a jazz fan, forget that these tunes come from the world of indie rock; in the hands of Carter and Chestnut, they might as well be undiscovered standards".[2] On All About Jazz Michael McCaw noted, "Gold Sounds doesn't give you everything the first time around. Like Pavement's recordings, what may seem complete is only a portion of the melody and musical ideas to which you ultimately want to return, because each time they hook you in a different way. In the end, the album provides a meaty dose of jazz that is as infectious as the pop from which it is derived".[3] In JazzTimes Brent Burton was less enthusiastic, noting, "a big hunk of the covers disc is, simply put, rather anonymous sounding, which leaves listeners with the quartet's somewhat cheesy conception of what it means to—gulp—rock".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Stephen Malkmus.

  1. "Stereo" – 6:24
  2. "My First Mine" – 6:30
  3. "Cut Your Hair" – 6:30
  4. "Summer Babe" – 4:36
  5. "Blue Hawaiian" – 4:54
  6. "Here" – 5:52
  7. "Platform Blues" – 5:38
  8. "Trigger Cut" – 3:54

Personnel

References
  1. James Carter discography, accessed October 15, 2016
  2. Westergaard, Sean. Gold Sounds – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. McCaw, M., All About Jazz Review, accessed October 15, 2016
  4. Burton, B., James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson, Reginald Veal: Gold Sounds – review, JazzTimes, December 2005 – accessed October 15, 2016
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