Minasi, Dom / Quick Response
Album: Quick Response   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Minasi, Dom   Added:Oct 2004
Label:Cdm Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2004-11-15 Pull Date: 2005-01-17 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Jan 16 Jan 9 Dec 26 Dec 19 Dec 12 Nov 28 Nov 21
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 12, 2005: The Panoply
Dizzy Lizzie
4. Dec 18, 2004: Morning Glory
Feels Like Rain in China
2. Jan 02, 2005: Sunday Morning
I Who Have Nothing
5. Dec 17, 2004: Memory Select
Feels Like Rain in China
3. Dec 23, 2004: Sunshine ... in the Afternoon
Quick Response
6. Dec 10, 2004: Memory Select
Quick Response

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2004-11-14
Jazz guitar and Hammond B3 organ. A quietly cooking brand of straight jazz with the occasional free-jazz scribbling (1, 9, or the end of 5). Minasi is a product of '50s jazz but enjoys tossing out some wild solos -- not as creative or liquid as Joe Morris, but still good.

The saxophonist is Mark Whitecage, who's best known for free-jazz sessions. He adds intriguing post-bop playing to even the more conservative tracks (3) and gets to go nuts on a few (1,7).

1- Bright and fast; a progressive take on Cole Porter
2- Fairly fast, with an intriguing, loping theme.
3- Slow shuffle
4- Mid/fast. Fun quivering guitar solo.
5- Midtempo cooker, fairly quiet
6- Calypso-lounge, mid-fast. Cool organ solo.
7- Bopping little theme, mid/fast. Gets a bit crazy
8- Slow, dreamy
9- Fast, swirling, and free. An unexpected reading of this usually mellow standard.

Track Listing
1. What Is this Thing Called...   5. I Who Have Nothing
2. Feels Like Rain in China   6. Into the Night
3. For My Father   7. Dizzy Lizzie
4. Quick Response   8. When Your Dreams Come True
  9. Softly As in a Morning ...