| Goldberg, Ben Quintet / Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact, The |
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| Album: | Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact, The | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Goldberg, Ben Quintet | Added: | Mar 2006 | |
| Label: | Cryptogramophone | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-04-23 | Pull Date: | 2006-06-25 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jun 25 | Jun 18 | Jun 4 | May 28 | May 21 | May 14 | May 7 | Apr 30 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 29, 2016: | Rebop Mf | 4. | Dec 08, 2006: | Memory Select - Album Week (hidden track), Cortege, Lone, Dog's Life, Facts, MF, Learned From Susan Stewart, I Before E Before I, Blinks, Facts, F13, Long Last Moment, Song And Dance, Petals | |
| 2. | Nov 14, 2009: | Music Casserole I Before E Before I | 5. | Nov 17, 2006: | Memory Select Song And Dance | |
| 3. | Feb 06, 2009: | Memory Select Song And Dance | 6. | Oct 27, 2006: | Memory Select: guest Myra Melford I Before E Before I |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2006-04-21 | ||
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Gentle and often thoughtful jazz based in complex composing and plenty of space for solos, a sort of tribute to Steve Lacy. Accessible stuff with substantial intelligence, played by a troupe of great local folks led by veteran Goldberg on clarinet. Clarinet + violin (Carla Kihlstedt) lend a klezmer air to many tracks, probably quite intentionally and the two in unison make for a dreamy sound. While many of the tempos are upbeat, there's a lonely and sad air to many tracks, as Lacy, one of Goldberg's heroes, had unexpectedly died days earlier. 1- Slowish, small chamber piece 2- Mid/fast w/hard beat. A catchy, jazzy ball of fun 3- Midtempo flutterings, upbeat but spare. Bass intro. 4- Gently crazy, w/darting violin/sax/clarinet 5- Slow lingering piece w/vocal: "I am hardly here these days." Derived from a fax Lacy sent to Goldberg; there's a touching story in the liner notes about their association. 6- Small "blinks" of music building into a nice group jam. Ends with a brisk march. Steve Lacy composition. 7- Infectious bass riff under a midtempo dissonant theme, almost brash. Plucked violin for a calm intro. 8- Floaty, mid/slow. 9- Clarinet doodles, midtempo, over sneaky bass/violin pecking 10- Reflective, with long tones. Reprise of 5 w/o vocals. 11- Slow. Lonely violin intro, then warm slow-jazz sax solo 12- Midtempo flow, slow fluttering feel 13- Mid/slow riff behind a collision of coolly burning solos 14- Slow, perky, a Steve Lacy song? "Hidden" track. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Petals | 7. | I Before E Before I | |||
| 2. | Song And Dance | 8. | Learned From Susan Stewat | |||
| 3. | Long Last Moment | 9. | Mf | |||
| 4. | F13 | 10. | Facts | |||
| 5. | Facts | 11. | Dog's Life | |||
| 6. | Blinks | 12. | Lone | |||
| 13. | Cortege | |||||