| Various Artists / Free Zone Appelby 2003 |
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| Album: | Free Zone Appelby 2003 | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2004 | |
| Label: | Psi Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-11-08 | Pull Date: | 2005-01-10 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 9 | Jan 2 | Nov 14 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 07, 2005: | Memory Select (Parts 1 & 2) W2-1 | 4. | Nov 12, 2004: | Memory Select S4/EP | |
| 2. | Jan 06, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program S4/AH | 5. | Nov 11, 2004: | Umami Jazz Program S4/AH | |
| 3. | Dec 31, 2004: | Hail To The Past, Move Towards The Future W2-1 | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2004-11-04 | ||
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Abstract improv in radio-friendly snippets (3 to 9 minutes). Acoustic combinations -- mostly quartets and quintets -- that were performed as part of the Appelby Jazz Festival, which every year gives a bit of the program to this kind of way-out-there music. The usual improv elements are here -- good group dynamics that define the "mood"; lots of virtuoso scribbling; unusual sounds on otherwise normal instruments. Nice stuff. Evan Parker is on saxophone for tracks 4, 7 and 13. Kenny Wheeler, who hung out with these very folks in the '60s before going more mainstream, plays flugelhorn on 4, 10 and 13 and shows nice "improv" chops. 1- Busy and squirrely. Quiet ending. 2- Anchored with some really cool bass lines. Starts slow, gets aggressive 3- Slashing violin. Ends with quiet, nervous strings. 4- Evan Parker/Kenny Wheeler duet. Quiet start, into some nice fast interplay 5- Brash and menacing, slow. 6- Fast and popping 7- Swirly and aggressive; meaty tenor sax from Evan Parker 8- Lots of really fast rattling; percussive. Kind of quiet except for a BURST in the last few minutes. 9- Cool fluttery-flute intro. Slow. 10- Fairly slow-moving, led by Wheeler's horn. 11- Twangy plucked strings. Gets furious! then slows up 12- Slow, sad 13- Studious; a relaxed pace. Picks up speed in the middle. 14- Eerie mood with slow, bowed strings -- nice and questioning | ||
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