Mtkj Quartet / Making Room for Spaces
Album: Making Room for Spaces   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Mtkj Quartet   Added:May 2004
Label:Nine Winds  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2004-05-31 Pull Date: 2004-08-02 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Aug 8 Aug 1 Jul 25 Jul 18 Jul 4 Jun 20 Jun 6
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 2 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 01, 2004: Oh Messy Life
Like That, She's Gone
4. Jul 16, 2004: Memory Select
Nuts and Gum, Together at Last!
2. Jul 26, 2004: "In Your Ear..." A Mellow Monday Afternoon
Nuts and Gum, Together at Last!
5. Jul 02, 2004: Memory Select
Like That, She's Gone
3. Jul 23, 2004: Memory Select
Mearsyshmearsy
6. Jun 29, 2004: "Live-In Your Ear..." Studio Z Broadcast pt.1
Suitte I: And So It Goes..., Function, Fish Face

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2004-06-10
Southern California quartet that combines Ornette-influenced writing with a penchant for abstract, purely improvised spaces.

See also Mears/Tiner/Kikuchi/Johnson Quartet (which is the same band).

1- Friendly bop swing, mid/fast
2- Abstract: light chaotic clatter, with sqeaky continual sax
3- Slow and loose
4- Brash, slow declaration. Moves into fast, wild sax jam
5- Mid/fast mechanical beat, fun. Second half more free, still swinging
6- Starts quiet, with warm trumpet and eerie sparse tapping. Moves into a slowish friendly swing.


Track Listing
1. Like That, She's Gone   4. Fish Face
2. And So It Goes...   5. Nuts and Gum, Together ...
3. Function   6. Mearsyshmearsy