| Territory Band / Map Theory |
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| Album: | Map Theory | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Territory Band | Added: | Nov 2004 | |
| Label: | Okka Disk | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-12-12 | Pull Date: | 2005-02-13 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Feb 13 | Feb 6 | Jan 23 | Jan 16 | Jan 9 | Dec 19 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 12, 2014: | Rebop A Certain Light | 4. | Feb 15, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program A Certain Light | |
| 2. | Jan 16, 2007: | Jena and Gomorrah: Occasional accordions! Slides #3 | 5. | Feb 11, 2005: | Memory Select A Certain Light | |
| 3. | Dec 06, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program A Certain Light | 6. | Feb 04, 2005: | Memory Select Framework |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2004-12-18 | ||
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Ken Vandermark's big band, and a vehicle for large-group experimenting. That means some of the tracks get into pointillistic, cerebral sounds ... although there's plenty of exciting free jazz as well, carried by bold, '60s-informed horn phrases. The band gets a 21st century sound from Kevin Drumm's noisy, crackling electronics. Liner notes discuss the construction of the pieces, particularly useful on the two "Slides" tracks. Don't dismiss the slow tracks; they're pretty cool. DISK 1 1- Off-balance, off-key march. Moves into funky groove by 5:50. Big frenzy ends 13:00, slipping into a nice relaxed trumpet solo. 2- Delicate, academic. Fairly quiet/serious but with nice steady flow. After -4:00, gets raucous. 3- Fast-shifting improv with lots of phases including an electronics break. DISK 2 1- Nicely loungy. Starts with relaxing mid/fast swing, then breaks into a faster segment for more aggressive solos. Deep funky stomp for the second half. 2- Improv, lots of shifting phases (see track 1.3) and more electronics. 3- Mostly quiet. Subsets of the band do sparse but active segments. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | A Certain Light | 4. | Towards Abstraction | |||
| 2. | Framework | 5. | Slides #1 | |||
| 3. | Slides #3 | 6. | Image As Text |