Ellis/Eneidi/Valsamis / American Roadwork
Album: American Roadwork   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Ellis/Eneidi/Valsamis   Added:Feb 2005
Label:Cimp  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-02-27 Pull Date: 2005-05-01 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: May 1 Apr 24 Apr 17 Apr 10 Apr 3 Mar 20 Mar 13 Mar 6
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. May 03, 2005: Umami Jazz Program
Vienna Blues
4. Apr 15, 2005: Memory Select
Dreamt Up Blues #6 Part 2
2. Apr 26, 2005: Umami Jazz Program
News Blues
5. Apr 08, 2005: Memory Select
Baby Please Don't Go
3. Apr 19, 2005: Umami Jazz Program
Dreamt Up Blues #6 Part 1
6. Apr 05, 2005: Umami Jazz Program
Baby Please Don't Go

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-02-23
Marco Eneidi, Bay Area free-jazz hero, here with bassist Lisle Ellis and drummer Peter Valsamis. The three had toured under the name "Sound On Survival" and paused in NY to record this gem.

Relaxed and bluesy! Eneidi is known for fast "energy" jazz (6,8,9,12), but on some tracks they made a conscious decision here to stick to blues forms and ideas, for a slower and more casual air (1,3,4) They're still freely improvised but with tangible grounding in blues scales and ideas. Great session overall.

1- A slow, summer-porch blues
2- Energetic. Starts slow but gets crazy.
3- Quiet jam
4- Sneaky blues riff
5- Fast; a nice short number
6- Starts coolly, gets into frenzied free sax
7- Fast
8- Very fast, after staggered start
9- Fast tumble
10- Calm and fast-rolling. Searing middle.
11- Somber bowed-bass solo, then a short slow blues
12- Fast and frenzied

Track Listing
1. Baby Please Don't Go   7. American Roadwork
2. Dreamt Up Blues #6 Part 2   8. Dreamt Up Blues #6 Part 1
3. News Blues   9. Dreamt Up Blues #5
4. Contractual Obligation Blues   10. Nine
5. Shock and Awe Shucks   11. Vienna Blues
6. Dreamt Up Blues #3   12. Short and Clean