| Allison, Ben / Peace Pipe |
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| Album: | Peace Pipe | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Allison, Ben | Added: | 09/2002 | |
| Label: | Palmetto Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2002-10-14 | Pull Date: | 2002-12-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 1 Dec | 24 Nov | 17 Nov | 10 Nov | 3 Nov | 27 Oct | 20 Oct |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 25, 2018: | No Cover, No Minimum Peace Pipe | 4. | Nov 25, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum Third Rail | |
| 2. | Jul 01, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum: Saturday Edition Slap Happy | 5. | Oct 07, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum Third Rail | |
| 3. | Sep 27, 2016: | A Show Has No Name Third Rail | 6. | May 14, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum Third Rail |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2002-10-10 | ||
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Light mainstream jazz. The band includes a kora (African stringed instrument, similar to banjo) on many tracks! Which gives it a world-music sound that’s often exotic but sometimes borders on new age. Ben Allison’s a borderline case ... he writes contemporary jazz that’s got enough adventure in the composing to be interesting, but it’s also got too much gloss -- it’s consciously relaxing and peaceful, as if to appeal to the Windham Hill or ECM crowd. Previous albums tipped too far that way -- and that’s why they’re not in our library. The saving graces for this one: The novelty of the kora, and the fact that former Berkeley star Peter Apfelbaum is on tracks 1, 6, 8 -- where he adds a bit of punch. Eurojazz stalwart Tomas Ulrich is in there too. 1- Fun loping song, w/kora solo 2- Fast but peaceful 3- Relaxing mid/fast ditty: again, too peaceful. Some raspy sax work, though. 4*- Spanish sound! Gets into some nice tenor-sax soloing. 5- Softly bluesy. Don’t bother. 6**- Mildly post-bop song, a bit complicated. Nice Apfelbaum solo. 7- Comforting kora-and-bass piece 8*- Slow and more deeply jazzy than most 9*- Mid/fast little piece, gets sweeping near the end | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Third Rail | 5. | Goin' Back | |||
| 2. | Slap Happy | 6. | Disposable Genius | |||
| 3. | Peace Pipe | 7. | Music Is Music | |||
| 4. | Dakan | 8. | Realization | |||
| 9. | Mantra | |||||