Fiedler, Joe / Crab, The
Album: Crab, The   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Fiedler, Joe   Added:Jan 2008
Label:Clean Feed  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2008-03-02 Pull Date: 2008-05-04 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Apr 20 Mar 23 Mar 16 Mar 9
Airplays: 2 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 23, 2015: Rebop
Trout Stream
4. Mar 21, 2008: Memory Select
Jesse's Little Freakout
2. Apr 18, 2008: Memory Select: Glennie/Frith preview
The Crab
5. Mar 14, 2008: No Cover, No Minimum
Trout Stream
3. Apr 18, 2008: No Cover, No Minimum
Trout Stream
6. Mar 07, 2008: Memory Select
The Crab

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2008-02-24
JOE FIEDLER TRIO: The Crab
Clean Feed, 2007

Good postmodern jazz: Trombonist Fiedler has a long resume in mainstream, latin and avant-garde jazz settings, so it’s not surprising that this CD mixes things up. Fiedler has great technique, liberally using multiphonics and other sound-stretching methods, and his sidemen are equally malleable. Appealing, accessible weirdo jazz.

All good. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 3, 5… maybe 8, 9

1. 7:30 – perky theme; growling trombone & rhythm wander all over the place
2. 5:13 – sneaky muted trombone, great string-bending bass, pattering drums
3. 3:10 – quick free jazz: long noodly solos, plus two down ‘n’ dirty breaks
4. 4:29 – quiet ballad with really grungy trombone, eloquent bass
5. 5:45 – laid-back march, great trombone solo gets knotty
6. 5:19 – casual, quirky melody; conversational solos
7. 5:25 – multiphonic trombone over slow bassline, picks up later
8. 4:50 – percolating melody, cool drums, trombone strides & scribbles
9. 5:06 – warbling solo trombone intro, then a loose-limbed avant groove

[ Fo ] 24-Feb-08


Track Listing
1. The Crab   5. Jesse's Little Freakout
2. Trout Stream   6. A Frankfurter In Caracas
3. Don't Impede The Stream   7. Split Tone
4. For Albert   8. New Rugs
  9. H.B.