Vampire's Revenge, The
Jazz
| Mar 2006
Reviews
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2006-04-13
Reviewed 2006-04-13
Free-jazz pieces linked by an Anne Rice/vampire theme, with an avant-chamber feel overall. Minasi's previous CDs have featured jazz-standards work with the occasional "out" touch on his guitar; this one goes all the way with oddball composing and long improv jams, featuring some of the NYC avant-jazz elite. Look for lots of nutty sax interludes and orchestra-tuning-up jamming.
He's assembled quite the band here -- look for avant-jazz all-star names like Matthew Shipp, Joe McPhee, Mark Whitecage, Sabir Mateen, Herb Robertson, etc.etc.etc. The large-ensemble tracks (3,4,7,11) use a conductor.
Tracks are meant to be mostly upbeat, playful, and even funny, so don't come in expecting dark gothy vampire atmosphere. There's a mix of small-group pieces and large-group ones. Tracks are long; inevitably, each contains fast and slow patches, but they're overall energetic.
DISK ONE
1- Playful chamber quartet, sparse but fast. Ends in a fast blur.
2- Slow chamber feel into improv squiggles. Gets ferocious.
3- With crazy woman schreeching "One more." Later, gets into a rolling mid/fast composition, nice but eerie
4- Grand, melodramatic, dissonant. Includes cello/bass improv and, later, a shredding fast jazz-guitar solo.
5- Matthew Shipp piano, both jazzy and dark/heavy. Has its slow spots but gets into a crashing mood
6- Cartoony march w/fem. vocal, into crazy sax play & drum solo
DISK TWO
7- Upbeat, softly bouncing, into fast pointillistic improv w/guitar and piano.
8- Lurching mid/fast theme, into large-scale improv brawl
9- Melodramatic narrative (a bit corny) over spirited improv
10- Fast scrabble, and a quiet melody, before a towering fast sax solo
He's assembled quite the band here -- look for avant-jazz all-star names like Matthew Shipp, Joe McPhee, Mark Whitecage, Sabir Mateen, Herb Robertson, etc.etc.etc. The large-ensemble tracks (3,4,7,11) use a conductor.
Tracks are meant to be mostly upbeat, playful, and even funny, so don't come in expecting dark gothy vampire atmosphere. There's a mix of small-group pieces and large-group ones. Tracks are long; inevitably, each contains fast and slow patches, but they're overall energetic.
DISK ONE
1- Playful chamber quartet, sparse but fast. Ends in a fast blur.
2- Slow chamber feel into improv squiggles. Gets ferocious.
3- With crazy woman schreeching "One more." Later, gets into a rolling mid/fast composition, nice but eerie
4- Grand, melodramatic, dissonant. Includes cello/bass improv and, later, a shredding fast jazz-guitar solo.
5- Matthew Shipp piano, both jazzy and dark/heavy. Has its slow spots but gets into a crashing mood
6- Cartoony march w/fem. vocal, into crazy sax play & drum solo
DISK TWO
7- Upbeat, softly bouncing, into fast pointillistic improv w/guitar and piano.
8- Lurching mid/fast theme, into large-scale improv brawl
9- Melodramatic narrative (a bit corny) over spirited improv
10- Fast scrabble, and a quiet melody, before a towering fast sax solo
Recent airplay
The Vampire's Revenge
Memory Select — Oct 31, 2008
The Dark Side
Umami Jazz Program — May 30, 2006
The Seduction
Memory Select — May 19, 2006
The Vampire's Revenge
The Vampire's Revenge
Memory Select — May 12, 2006
Who's Your Dentist?
Memory Select — Apr 28, 2006
Charting
2006-04-02 — 2006-06-04
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jun 4 | 1 |
| May 21 | 2 |
| May 14 | 1 |
| Apr 30 | 1 |
| Apr 23 | 1 |
| Apr 16 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | The Seduction | ||
| 2. | Who's Your Dentist? | ||
| 3. | Just One More Bite | ||
| 4. | The Transformation | ||
| 5. | The Dark Side | ||
| 6. | The First Day | ||
| 7. | Blood Lust | ||
| 8. | The Hunt | ||
| 9. | Where You Gonna Go? Where You Gonna Hide? | ||
| 10. | The Vampire's Revenge |