{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Same Mother | type = Album | artist = [[Jason Moran (musician)|Jason Moran]] | cover = Same Mother.jpg | alt = | released = February 1, 2005 | recorded = May 15–16, 2004 | venue = | studio = Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 48:48 | label = [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]] | producer = Jason Moran | chronology = [[Jason Moran (musician)|Jason Moran]] | prev_title = [[The Bandwagon (album)|The Bandwagon]] | prev_year = 2003 | next_title = [[Artist in Residence (album)|Artist in Residence]] | next_year = 2006 }} '''''Same Mother''''' is the sixth album by American pianist and composer [[Jason Moran (musician)|Jason Moran]] which was released on the [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]] label in 2005.<ref name="Blue Note album details">[http://www.bluenote.com/artists/jason-moran/same-mother Blue Note: album details] accessed June 7, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/jason-moran/catalog/#blue-note-7243-5-71780-2-0 Jazzdisco: Jason Moran catalog] accessed June 7, 2018</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[Allmusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = [[Allmusic]] | rev2Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AAJ 1"/> | rev3 = [[The Guardian]] | rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Guardian"/> |rev4 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev4score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1036}}</ref> }} The [[AllMusic]] review by Matt Collar said "Boundary-pushing pianist Jason Moran expands his sound yet again with a blend of modern electric and acoustic blues on ''Same Mother'' ... for fans of both forward-thinking jazz and roots music, ''Same Mother'' -- a conceptual nod to the unifying notion that we are all ultimately descended from one mother -- holds considerable surprises".<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Collar |first= Matt |class=album|id=mw0000142399|title= Jason Moran – ''Some Mother'' > Review |accessdate=June 7, 2018}}</ref>
[[All About Jazz]] stated, "''Same Mother'' is a re-examination of the blues, not so much of its formal or harmonic elements, but rather its emotional and aesthetic constituents ... Ever since his arrival on the scene in the mid-1990s, Jason Moran has been a unique voice. He brings a wide-ranging, very contemporary perspective to even the oldest materials, including the blues. ''Same Mother'' is a triumph".<ref name="AAJ 1">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/same-mother-jason-moran-blue-note-records-review-by-aaj-staff.php |title=Jason Moran: ''Same Mother'' |work=Musical reviews |first=AAJ |last=Staff |publisher=[[All About Jazz]] |accessdate=June 7, 2018 }}</ref>
In [[The Guardian]], John Fordham wrote "This fierce but idiomatically familiar set augments the superb trio Moran has run since the late 1990s (bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits) with guitarist Marvin Sewell, on a repertoire that ransacks the retro and reforges it in the furnace of Moran's imagination".<ref name="Guardian">Fordham, J. [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/apr/01/jazz.shopping3 The Guardian Review] accessed June 7, 2018</ref>
In [[JazzTimes]], [[Geoffrey Himes]] noted "Moran has once again demonstrated how jazz can reinvigorate itself by reaching beyond the usual show tunes and hard-bop rewrites to find new material for improvisation. Whether the material is classical music, hip-hop or blues, the trick, Moran implies, is to recognize the family resemblance between jazz and its musical relative without mistaking them for identical twins".<ref>Himes, G. [https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/jason-moran-same-mother/ JazzTimes Review] accessed June 7, 2018</ref>
==Track listing== All compositions by Jason Moran except where noted # "Gangsterism On the Rise" – 2:54 # "Jump Up" – 5:48 # "Aubade" ([[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]], Moran) – 4:29 # "G Suit Saltation" – 6:01 # "I'll Play the Blues for You" ([[Jerry Beach]]) – 7:41 # "Fire Waltz" ([[Mal Waldron]]) – 4:36 # "[[Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)|Field of the Dead]]" ([[Sergei Prokofiev]]) – 5:19 # "Restin'" – 4:15 # "The Field" (Alicia Hall Moran) – 4:06 # "Gangsterism On the Set" – 3:39
==Personnel== * [[Jason Moran (musician)|Jason Moran]] – piano * [[Marvin Sewell]] – acoustic guitar, electric guitar * [[Tarus Mateen]] – acoustic bass, acoustic-electric bass * [[Nasheet Waits]] – drums
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