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Claudia Quintet: Drew Gress (upright bass); Matt Moran, Ted Reichman, John Hollenbeck, Chris Speed. Personnel: Ted Reichman (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, accordion, keyboards); Drew Gress (electric guitar, acoustic bass); Chris Speed (clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano); Matt Moran (baritone horn, keyboards, vibraphone); John Hollenbeck (piano, keyboards, drums, percussion). Recording information: Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn, NY. Unknown Contributor Role: John Hollenbeck. The Claudia Quintet utilize unusual rhythmic patterns, creative repetitions, and such instruments as accordion, vibes, and clarinet to create a dramatic set of music. As much a soundtrack for a nonexistent movie as it is a jazz set, the music on Semi-Formal is quite cinematic, moody, and thoroughly intriguing. Although some of the individual pieces could stand alone, this is very much a 13-song suite, with one selection leading logically if unpredictably to another. In a similar way, the individual musicians, although impressive by themselves, are most important being part of the group sound, adding to the wide variety of tonal colors. Semi-Formal, which will take time to fully appreciate, is well worthy of several listens. ~ Scott YanowThe Wire (p.75) - "It's music that, in keeping with Cuneiform's devotion to jazz rock and other uncategorisable forms, breaks down boundaries. Lot of clever stuff and a leaven of humour..." Down Beat (p.80) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "The quintet's instrumental palette has never before been this expansive, with all of the players doubling and tripling on different instruments, and the scattered solos emerge in a satisfyingly organic fashion..." JazzTimes (p.85) - "Hollenbeck's gift for imaginative, finely woven orchestration couldn't be clearer, whether he's working with five pieces or 16." Claudia Quintet Semi-Formal Songs Purchase Semi-Formal CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Don Byron Ivey-Divey CD (2004)
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$11.89 Personnel: Don Byron (clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone); Don Byron; Lonnie Plaxico (double bass); Ralph Alessi (trumpet); Jason Moran (piano); Jack DeJohnette (drums). Audio Mixer: Tom Lazarus. Recording information: Allaire Studios, Shokan, NY (05/23/2004/05/24/2004). Illustrator: Juliette Borda. Photographer: Cori Wells Braun. Clarinetist Don Byron once again mixes post-bop, swing, and funk into a unique concoction on Ivey-Divey. Just like Bug Music wasn't necessarily '30s swing and A Fine Line: ...
| | Paul Motian I Have The Room Above Her CD (2005)
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$14.65 Personnel: Paul Motian (drums); Paul Motian; Bill Frisell (guitar); Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone). Recording information: AVATAR Studio, NY (04/2004). Photographer: Robert Lewis . The sum total of the nuanced, elliptical lyricism at the heart of Paul Motian's compositional method can be heard in the opening seconds of "Osmosis Part III," the first track from I Have the Room Above Her. Recorded for ECM -- with producer Manfred Eicher, guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano -- this date is Motian's first as a leader for the label in more than 20 years. This is the same team that recorded ...
| | Marc Ribot Spiritual Unity CD (2005)
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$13.05 Personnel: Marc Ribot (guitar); Marc Ribot; Henry Grimes (double bass); Roy Campbell (trumpet, pocket trumpet); Chad Taylor (drums). Recording information: Orange Music Sound Studio, West Orange, NJ (10/27/2004/10/28/2004); Tonic, New York, NY (10/27/2004/10/28/2004). Photographer: Dominik Huber. Albert Ayler compositions have been in Marc Ribot's book for many years, so it shouldn't really be a surprise that he put together a band to play Ayler tunes. However, when Ribot started playing Ayler songs he couldn't have dreamed that he'd be playing them with Henry Grimes, the original bass player on a number of Ayler's seminal mid-'60s recordings (Grimes walked away from ...
| | Jenny Scheinman 12 Songs CD (2005)
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$15.09 Personnel: Jenny Scheinman (violin); Jenny Scheinman; Ron Miles (cornet); Tim Luntzel (double bass); Bill Frisell (guitar); Rachelle Garniez (accordion, piano); Doug Wieselman (clarinet); Dan Rieser (drums). Audio Mixer: Sascha von Oertzen. Recording information: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (12/13/2004/12/14/2004). No one can accuse violinist and composer Jenny Scheinman of promulgating any kind of jazz cliché, or even of fitting in especially well ...
| | Ben Goldberg The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact CD (2006)
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$14.59 Ben Goldberg: Ben Goldberg (clarinet); Carla Kihlstedt (violin); Rob Sudduth (saxophone); Devin Hoff (double bass); Ches Smith (drums). An intensely personal CD recorded only three days after the death of clarinetist Goldberg's inspiration and mentor, Steve Lacy, the music of The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact is perhaps enhanced by such knowledge but nonetheless stands proudly on its own merits as a fine collection of thoughtful chamber jazz. Lacy's presence is felt not only through the inclusion of two of his compositions, "Blinks" ...
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