| Conference Call / Spirals |
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| Album: | Spirals | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Conference Call | Added: | Jan 2004 | |
| Label: | 482 Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-02-09 | Pull Date: | 2004-04-12 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Apr 11 | Mar 21 | Mar 7 | Feb 15 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 25, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program Comeuppance | 4. | Mar 05, 2004: | Memory Select Three | |
| 2. | Apr 06, 2004: | Umami Jazz Program No Hazmats | 5. | Feb 13, 2004: | Memory Select Comeuppance | |
| 3. | Mar 19, 2004: | Memory Select Comeuppance | 6. | Feb 12, 2004: | The Umami Challenge Comeuppance |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2004-02-08 | ||
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Bebop-derived jazz with lots of free ideas, a live album with extended solos. Combines lush piano, frequently aggressive sax, and some really nice bass solos. Mostly accessible sound that delves into some avant-garde kind of territory (see #2). The band consists of German sax player Gebhard Ullman with the U.S. team of Joe Fonda (bass) and Michael Jefry Stevens (piano). It's been a good working group for a few years now, albeit with different drummers, and the boost to their intercommunication really shows. See also "Ullman, Gebhard," where you'll find the first Conference Call CD. 1- Mid/slow with insistent drums... mostly gentle with a burning, choppy sax solo 2- Expansive feeling fast-bop with a slow, exploratory intro. Compare with the studio version (in the library under "Ullmann"), which was more of a straight fast-jazz piece... at one point around -5:00, they play the theme this way. 3- Slow, romantic, '50s-restaurant kind of feel. 4/5 - Protest song! A spoken intro about Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz, followed by band members screaming; then fast, choppy music. Segues into 6. 6- Slow and serious. Near-classical feel. 7- Fast with stumbling theme, after quiet start | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Comeuppance | 4. | Announcement | |||
| 2. | Dreierlei | 5. | Three | |||
| 3. | Little Pete's Diner | 6. | Translucent Tones | |||
| 7. | No Hazmats | |||||