Rothenberg, Ned / Intervals
Album: Intervals   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Rothenberg, Ned   Added:Jul 2002
Label:Roulette Records Inc.  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2002-09-16 Pull Date: 2002-11-18 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Nov 10 Oct 6
Airplays: 2 1

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 08, 2002: Memory Select
One Little World
3. Oct 04, 2002: Memory Select
Inevitable Surprise [excerpt]
2. Nov 05, 2002: the jewish alternative
Transgression

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2002-11-15
Solo improvisations on a variety of woodwinds. Very good, tuneful pieces. Rothenberg avoids the trap of near-silent air-through-the-horn playing, instead exploring particular tonalities in each piece -- either jazz-like or dissonant/abstract.

It's a two-CD set ... Disk 1 features clarinet, bass clarinet or shakuhachi (Japanese flute) on each track. The shakuhachi (1, 11) is nice and mystic, the bass clarinet (3,5,6,8) bouncy and tuneful.

Disk 2 is all alto sax, focusing quite a bit on sad, blues-tinged playing. Very nice, especially tracks 13 and 15 ... track 18 gets into less tonal, more experimental territory, leaping into long fluid runs.

Track Listing
1. Opening in the Wood   11. Piece of the Ocean
2. Color Wheel   12. The Achilles Paradox
3. Transgression   13. Highjump
4. Sharp Bubbles   14. After the Bell
5. X-Tension   15. Melody Too
6. Dancebreak   16. A Leg Up
7. Nail on the Head   17. T.C.
8. One Little World   18. Inevitable Surprise
9. Melody Won   19. Before the Bell
10. Croak   .