| New American Wing / New American Wing |
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| Album: | New American Wing | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | New American Wing | Added: | Feb 2006 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-02-12 | Pull Date: | 2006-04-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 19 | Mar 12 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 18, 2006: | Umami Jazz Program Hot Minerva | 4. | Mar 10, 2006: | Memory Select Hot Minerva | |
| 2. | Mar 17, 2006: | Memory Select Upside-Down Turtle | 5. | Feb 24, 2006: | Memory Select The Hare | |
| 3. | Mar 16, 2006: | Rock in a Position: phoning it in edition The Hare | 6. | Feb 17, 2006: | Memory Select X |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2006-02-10 | ||
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Avant-chamber-jazz trio of trumpet, guitar, and cello, with comforting but oblique compositions that lean towards post-rock, mostly in yummy 3-minute nibbles. Accessible stuff, often slow/pretty, with melodies that slip out of "normal" space (15 is a good example) the way jazz tends to do. Look up the band 33.3 -- these guys are relaxing like that but more complex. PR materials praise the group as a new form of jazz and quote Eugene Chadbourne and Anthony Braxton singing the band's praises, so they must be for real, right? I'm just being cynical -- this is nice stuff deserving of an audience, and it does tickle the "jazz" part of my brain. 5,10,14 -- Fast jazzy snippets, perky. Under 1 minute each. 1- Stiff, overlapping, wandering lines. Lush near end 2- Soft; a bit like Euro cafe/sidewalk music. Slow and pretty. 3- Slow, w/train-whistle twang 4- Odd 7/8 groove with floaty leads 6- Swaying and slowish 7- Rolling, folky feel w/strummed guitar. Pretty. Mid/fast 8- Shimmering, slow. Solo guitar. 9- Dreamy, w/surreal turns later on 11- Dramatic sweeps. Jazzy flavor, gets a bit crazy. 12- Slow country guitar 13- Slow cello, into floaty group work 15- Slow, peaceful, sad 16- Soft cello/guitar duet | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Hot Minerva | 9. | Toxic | |||
| 2. | Upside-Down Turtle | 10. | Smile At Your Graves | |||
| 3. | Slow Dance | 11. | Cosmology | |||
| 4. | The Hare | 12. | All Is Vanity | |||
| 5. | X | 13. | Fleeing Ghost | |||
| 6. | Third Man | 14. | Trista-Faux | |||
| 7. | Over And Over | 15. | You Must Eat | |||
| 8. | Line Drawing #18 | 16. | Stand And Be Counted |