Minasi, Dom / Vampire's Revenge, The
| Album: | Vampire's Revenge, The | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Minasi, Dom | Added: | Mar 2006 | |
| Label: | Cdm Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2006-04-02 | Pull Date: | 2006-06-04 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Jun 4 | May 21 | May 14 | Apr 30 | Apr 23 | Apr 16 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 31, 2008: | Memory Select
The Vampire's Revenge |
4. | May 19, 2006: | Rock in a Position: I'll punch a donkey in the streets of Galway
The Vampire's Revenge |
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| 2. | May 30, 2006: | Umami Jazz Program
The Dark Side |
5. | May 12, 2006: | Memory Select
The Vampire's Revenge |
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| 3. | May 19, 2006: | Memory Select
The Seduction |
6. | Apr 28, 2006: | Memory Select
Who's Your Dentist? |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2006-04-13
Reviewed 2006-04-13
Free-jazz pieces linked by an Anne Rice/vampire theme, with an avant-chamber feel overall. Minasi's previous CDs have featured jazz-standards work with the occasional "out" touch on his guitar; this one goes all the way with oddball composing and long improv jams, featuring some of the NYC avant-jazz elite. Look for lots of nutty sax interludes and orchestra-tuning-up jamming.
He's assembled quite the band here -- look for avant-jazz all-star names like Matthew Shipp, Joe McPhee, Mark Whitecage, Sabir Mateen, Herb Robertson, etc.etc.etc. The large-ensemble tracks (3,4,7,11) use a conductor.
Tracks are meant to be mostly upbeat, playful, and even funny, so don't come in expecting dark gothy vampire atmosphere. There's a mix of small-group pieces and large-group ones. Tracks are long; inevitably, each contains fast and slow patches, but they're overall energetic.
DISK ONE
1- Playful chamber quartet, sparse but fast. Ends in a fast blur.
2- Slow chamber feel into improv squiggles. Gets ferocious.
3- With crazy woman schreeching "One more." Later, gets into a rolling mid/fast composition, nice but eerie
4- Grand, melodramatic, dissonant. Includes cello/bass improv and, later, a shredding fast jazz-guitar solo.
5- Matthew Shipp piano, both jazzy and dark/heavy. Has its slow spots but gets into a crashing mood
6- Cartoony march w/fem. vocal, into crazy sax play & drum solo
DISK TWO
7- Upbeat, softly bouncing, into fast pointillistic improv w/guitar and piano.
8- Lurching mid/fast theme, into large-scale improv brawl
9- Melodramatic narrative (a bit corny) over spirited improv
10- Fast scrabble, and a quiet melody, before a towering fast sax solo
He's assembled quite the band here -- look for avant-jazz all-star names like Matthew Shipp, Joe McPhee, Mark Whitecage, Sabir Mateen, Herb Robertson, etc.etc.etc. The large-ensemble tracks (3,4,7,11) use a conductor.
Tracks are meant to be mostly upbeat, playful, and even funny, so don't come in expecting dark gothy vampire atmosphere. There's a mix of small-group pieces and large-group ones. Tracks are long; inevitably, each contains fast and slow patches, but they're overall energetic.
DISK ONE
1- Playful chamber quartet, sparse but fast. Ends in a fast blur.
2- Slow chamber feel into improv squiggles. Gets ferocious.
3- With crazy woman schreeching "One more." Later, gets into a rolling mid/fast composition, nice but eerie
4- Grand, melodramatic, dissonant. Includes cello/bass improv and, later, a shredding fast jazz-guitar solo.
5- Matthew Shipp piano, both jazzy and dark/heavy. Has its slow spots but gets into a crashing mood
6- Cartoony march w/fem. vocal, into crazy sax play & drum solo
DISK TWO
7- Upbeat, softly bouncing, into fast pointillistic improv w/guitar and piano.
8- Lurching mid/fast theme, into large-scale improv brawl
9- Melodramatic narrative (a bit corny) over spirited improv
10- Fast scrabble, and a quiet melody, before a towering fast sax solo
Track Listing