Red & Blue
Jazz
| Jan 2016
Reviews
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)
Recent airplay
Red (1)
K-Area — May 01, 2016
Red (2)
Rebop — Apr 15, 2016
Red (1)
All Passion No Technique — Mar 31, 2016
Red (2)
Music Casserole — Mar 26, 2016
Red (1)
The Off-Beat Generation — Mar 08, 2016
Blue (2), Red (2)
Charting
2016-02-28 — 2016-05-01
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Apr 17 | 1 |
| Apr 3 | 1 |
| Mar 27 | 1 |
| Mar 13 | 2 |
| Mar 6 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Red (1) | ||
| 2. | Blue (1) | ||
| 3. | Red (2) | ||
| 4. | Blue (2) |