Futterman/Fielder/Levin Trio / Traveling Through Now
Album: | Traveling Through Now | Collection: | Jazz | |
Artist: | Futterman/Fielder/Levin Trio | Added: | Jul 2008 | |
Label: | Charles Lester Music |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2008-11-16 | Pull Date: | 2009-01-18 | Charts: | Jazz |
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Week Ending: | Jan 18 | Jan 11 | Jan 4 | Dec 28 | Dec 14 | Dec 7 |
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Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Jan 17, 2009: | On The Warpath
Illumination |
4. | Jan 02, 2009: | Memory Select
Freescapes |
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2. | Jan 16, 2009: | Memory Select
Moment Dweller/Outertopeia |
5. | Dec 25, 2008: | Music Casserole
Outertopeia |
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3. | Jan 09, 2009: | Memory Select
Ascendence |
6. | Dec 12, 2008: | Memory Select
Ascendence |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2008-11-02
Reviewed 2008-11-02
Free jazz trio, improvised work that's usually high-energy and does sound tangibly jazzy. Gets tangly and furious.
Futterman favors a big piano attack, a cross between Cecil Taylor madness and that McCoy Tyner grand-ocean-waves sound of the '60s. He'll switch to saxophone sometimes for some nice sparring with Ike Levin, who puts up a good free-jazz front himself.
Another nice long session (it sounds like one long piece, split into tracks for programming convenience) from some guys who've been playing together a long time.
1- 15 seconds of talking, then dives straight into some fast, hard work.
2- Drum patter, into interesting two-sax work
3- BIG piano enters. Later, a cool splattery piano solo
4- Slower, nearly romantic. Quiet, tender.
5- Still slow, with a very 'nice' piano & bass clarinet part. Builds up intensity.
6- Wailing sax + bass clarinet. Some bluesy tones at the start.
7- Coltrane-like, towering feel, into a raging tumult. Ends soft and nice
8- Thoughtful drum solo. Slow, warbling saxes.
9- Slow ocean-waves feel. Gets into a fast but low-level flow, deft and purposeful but not too wild
10- Some thundring bombast. Ends on a compelling, tense chord repeated on the piano
Futterman favors a big piano attack, a cross between Cecil Taylor madness and that McCoy Tyner grand-ocean-waves sound of the '60s. He'll switch to saxophone sometimes for some nice sparring with Ike Levin, who puts up a good free-jazz front himself.
Another nice long session (it sounds like one long piece, split into tracks for programming convenience) from some guys who've been playing together a long time.
1- 15 seconds of talking, then dives straight into some fast, hard work.
2- Drum patter, into interesting two-sax work
3- BIG piano enters. Later, a cool splattery piano solo
4- Slower, nearly romantic. Quiet, tender.
5- Still slow, with a very 'nice' piano & bass clarinet part. Builds up intensity.
6- Wailing sax + bass clarinet. Some bluesy tones at the start.
7- Coltrane-like, towering feel, into a raging tumult. Ends soft and nice
8- Thoughtful drum solo. Slow, warbling saxes.
9- Slow ocean-waves feel. Gets into a fast but low-level flow, deft and purposeful but not too wild
10- Some thundring bombast. Ends on a compelling, tense chord repeated on the piano
Track Listing
1. | Primal Center | 6. | Moment Dweller | |||
2. | Illumination | 7. | Outertopeia | |||
3. | Ascendence | 8. | Connextions | |||
4. | Life's Whisper | 9. | Triple Question | |||
5. | Dance Of Discovery | 10. | Freescapes |