Aldcroft, Ken & Scott Thomson / Red & Blue
| Album: | Red & Blue | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Aldcroft, Ken & Scott Thomson | Added: | Jan 2016 | |
| Label: | Trio Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2016-02-28 | Pull Date: | 2016-05-01 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 17 | Apr 3 | Mar 27 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 01, 2016: | K-Area
Red (1) |
4. | Mar 26, 2016: | Music Casserole
Red (2) |
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| 2. | Apr 15, 2016: | Rebop
Red (2) |
5. | Mar 08, 2016: | The Off-Beat Generation
Red (1) |
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| 3. | Mar 31, 2016: | All Passion No Technique
Red (1) |
6. | Mar 07, 2016: | Everything A to Z week 33 (edit created for re-airing on June 8th, 2020)
Blue (2), Red (2) |
Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2016-02-20
Reviewed 2016-02-20
FREE JAZZ / AVANT-GARDE
Ken Aldcroft (guitar) and Scott Thomson (trombone) are both from the Toronto area. Thomson is a member of Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble. Here they team up for four very free improvisations. Trombone goes from its very bottom note to ultra-high register and produces weird sounds including voicing through the horn. Guitar is picked, hollow-body, sometimes with electronics. This is sometimes strange but worthwhile listening.
All instrumental. No FCC issues.
1 * Slow, meandering, but still pleasant. Almost traditional hollow-body jazz guitar sound. Wild trombone with plenty of glissando and very rapid tonguing. (4:14)
2 Very slow. Strange & eerie. Dominated by the guitar with scraping sounds, electronic effects & percussive techniques. Trombone grunts & groans toward the end. (6:16)
3 ** Mostly slow; faster toward end. A very simpatico collaboration: you can sense them listening and working carefully together. Both strummed chords and picked runs on guitar; trombone does a bit of everything. (20:18)
4 Very slow. Trombone out in front much of the way, using the whole range of the instrument, fluttering, groaning; guitar accompanying with “jazzy” chords. (13:58)
Ken Aldcroft (guitar) and Scott Thomson (trombone) are both from the Toronto area. Thomson is a member of Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble. Here they team up for four very free improvisations. Trombone goes from its very bottom note to ultra-high register and produces weird sounds including voicing through the horn. Guitar is picked, hollow-body, sometimes with electronics. This is sometimes strange but worthwhile listening.
All instrumental. No FCC issues.
1 * Slow, meandering, but still pleasant. Almost traditional hollow-body jazz guitar sound. Wild trombone with plenty of glissando and very rapid tonguing. (4:14)
2 Very slow. Strange & eerie. Dominated by the guitar with scraping sounds, electronic effects & percussive techniques. Trombone grunts & groans toward the end. (6:16)
3 ** Mostly slow; faster toward end. A very simpatico collaboration: you can sense them listening and working carefully together. Both strummed chords and picked runs on guitar; trombone does a bit of everything. (20:18)
4 Very slow. Trombone out in front much of the way, using the whole range of the instrument, fluttering, groaning; guitar accompanying with “jazzy” chords. (13:58)
Track Listing
| 1. | Red (1) | 3. | Red (2) | |||
| 2. | Blue (1) | 4. | Blue (2) |