| Berne, Tim / Snakeoil |
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| Album: | Snakeoil | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Berne, Tim | Added: | Feb 2012 | |
| Label: | Ecm Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-03-02 | Pull Date: | 2012-05-05 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | May 6 | Apr 29 | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 | Apr 1 | Mar 25 | Mar 11 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 04, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum Scanners | 4. | Apr 21, 2012: | The Mongrel's Stoop Spectacle, Simple City | |
| 2. | Apr 28, 2012: | The Mongrel's Stoop Not Sure | 5. | Apr 19, 2012: | Nathin' To Do Not Sure | |
| 3. | Apr 24, 2012: | Rebop Not Sure | 6. | Apr 10, 2012: | Rebop Simple City |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2012-02-26 | ||
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Between chamber jazz and free jazz; adventurous quartet suites with lots of that echoey ECM sound. Tracks move through multiple modds but tend to include both rainy-day spareness and bustling avant-jazz composing. 2 and 5 grab the ears most immediately; 3 takes a little patience but is totally worth it. Ches Smith of Good For Cows is the drummer! Tim Berne - sax Oscar Noriega - clarinet Matt Mitchell - piano 1- Studious quietude, with a stormy composed part in the middle. Ends with slow dramatic surges. Good place to start if you're a fan of ECM in general. 2- Faster stuff: perky and bouncy. Great intro to that choppy, herky-jerky Berne composing style. 3- 1st half quiet: Slow, foreboding entry, into a warm but spare clarinet solo and an inviting, mellow sax/piano part. 2nd half: midtempo but strongly driven. Sometimes delicate, sometimes stormy. Finishes big. 4- Gentle but not slow, a warm mood. Starts with a mid/fast criss-cross theme. Excellent clarinet solo, between classical and avant-jazz, then a nicely warm but exploratory sax solo. 5- Bustling, a busy intro. Gets quiet early on, but it's rather busy throughout and gets downright burly. Winds up neatly. 6- Calm mid/fast, even playful -- it's restrained and relaxing but keeps things moving. And then it builds up to a big sound for the finish. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Simple City | 4. | Yield | |||
| 2. | Scanners | 5. | Not Sure | |||
| 3. | Spare Parts | 6. | Spectacle |