Futterman, Joel/Ike Levin Trio / Live at the Noe Valley Ministr
Album: | Live at the Noe Valley Ministr | Collection: | Jazz | |
Artist: | Futterman, Joel/Ike Levin Trio | Added: | May 2003 | |
Label: | Iml Music |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2003-08-04 | Pull Date: | 2003-10-06 | Charts: | Jazz |
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Week Ending: | Sep 14 | Aug 17 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Oct 10, 2003: | Memory Select
Track 3 |
3. | Aug 15, 2003: | Memory Select
Track 6 |
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2. | Sep 12, 2003: | Memory Select
Track 1 |
4. | Aug 10, 2003: | Oh Messy Life
Track 3 |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-08-07
Reviewed 2003-08-07
Free jazz, entirely improvised, with (mostly) sax, piano and cello. Recorded in SF at Noe Valley Ministry. Lots of scattery Cecil Taylor-like piano and aggressive, fast-flowing sax. Pianist Futterman also gets off the piano to add extra sax playing sometimes.
Futterman and Levin have been a tag-team duo for some time, and they've worked with cellist Killian quite a bit. They do a good job building comprehensible structures out of thin air,
Disk features two 40-minute sets of music, each divided into three tracks for indexing purposes.
1*- Opens with bright flute/cello duet, moving into a perky two-sax segment. Nice declarative ending.
2- Very quiet for 5 minutes, then more aggressive. Nice soaring piano chords around -4:00.
3*- Gets into a cute boppin' rhythm for a bit, followed by a fast scattery zone. Calm middle with cool soaring chords around -6:30.
4- Mystical wanderings, starts slow then speeds up. Twangy stringed instrument (the "serangi"?)
5- Takes a while to coalesce but hits a fast dynamic patch that crests at the halfway point. Second half quiet, includes some lovely soloing over a really cool little cello riff.
6*- Gets into soaring dramatic territory after a few minutes -- lots of high cello and big piano chords. Peaceful ending.
Futterman and Levin have been a tag-team duo for some time, and they've worked with cellist Killian quite a bit. They do a good job building comprehensible structures out of thin air,
Disk features two 40-minute sets of music, each divided into three tracks for indexing purposes.
1*- Opens with bright flute/cello duet, moving into a perky two-sax segment. Nice declarative ending.
2- Very quiet for 5 minutes, then more aggressive. Nice soaring piano chords around -4:00.
3*- Gets into a cute boppin' rhythm for a bit, followed by a fast scattery zone. Calm middle with cool soaring chords around -6:30.
4- Mystical wanderings, starts slow then speeds up. Twangy stringed instrument (the "serangi"?)
5- Takes a while to coalesce but hits a fast dynamic patch that crests at the halfway point. Second half quiet, includes some lovely soloing over a really cool little cello riff.
6*- Gets into soaring dramatic territory after a few minutes -- lots of high cello and big piano chords. Peaceful ending.
Track Listing
1. | Track 1 | 4. | Track 4 | |||
2. | Track 2 | 5. | Track 5 | |||
3. | Track 3 | 6. | Track 6 |