Valencia
Reviews
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2006-06-11
Reviewed 2006-06-11
Creative but accessible, with some melodic work (rocker-turned-jazzster kinds of pieces) but also squirrely free jazz and other surprises. Trio setting, led by local bassist Combs who produces some cool sounds on fretless. Lead voice is sax/clarinet; drums by John Hollenbeck (check out his hyper-modern Claudia Quintet, which isn't that dissimilar from this stuff). Lots of creative elements here, but it's not so abstract as to turn off non-converts.
1- Easy, loping feel, hyper drums. Strong groove later.
2- Slow, romantic
3- Fast, quiet free scribbles
4- Lurking, slow; nice melody later. Free clatter near the end.
5- Slow, mourning. Bowed bass.
6- Mid/fast, "up," mild Klezmer influence
7- Spare, lonely sax. Chaotic and disjoint later.
8- Turn o'century feel; fast and mellow/romantic
9- Prickly avant/fast, spare feel.
10- Bass solo: Combs' 5-yr-old niece describes a dream, and his bass tracks her words. (For more experiments of instruments mimicking speech patterns, see Jason Moran's "The Bandwagon.")
11- Sad carnival sound, with melodica
12- Weird off-kilter wanderings, a slow babble
13- Spry, popping. Some free-jazz madness
14- Slow chamber feel
15- Gently happy. Briefly crazy, later.
16- Darkly abstract; briefly fast later
17- Slow chimes of doom
1- Easy, loping feel, hyper drums. Strong groove later.
2- Slow, romantic
3- Fast, quiet free scribbles
4- Lurking, slow; nice melody later. Free clatter near the end.
5- Slow, mourning. Bowed bass.
6- Mid/fast, "up," mild Klezmer influence
7- Spare, lonely sax. Chaotic and disjoint later.
8- Turn o'century feel; fast and mellow/romantic
9- Prickly avant/fast, spare feel.
10- Bass solo: Combs' 5-yr-old niece describes a dream, and his bass tracks her words. (For more experiments of instruments mimicking speech patterns, see Jason Moran's "The Bandwagon.")
11- Sad carnival sound, with melodica
12- Weird off-kilter wanderings, a slow babble
13- Spry, popping. Some free-jazz madness
14- Slow chamber feel
15- Gently happy. Briefly crazy, later.
16- Darkly abstract; briefly fast later
17- Slow chimes of doom
Recent airplay
Heavy
Memory Select — Jul 28, 2006
1974
Memory Select — Jul 21, 2006
Foreign Postmark
Memory Select — Jul 07, 2006
Tiny Insects
Memory Select — Jun 30, 2006
Money In Your Pocket And A Room With A View
Memory Select — Jun 23, 2006
Money In Your Pocket And A Room With A View
Radio Of Imagination — Jun 13, 2006
Charting
2006-06-11 — 2006-08-13
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jul 30 | 1 |
| Jul 23 | 1 |
| Jul 9 | 1 |
| Jul 2 | 1 |
| Jun 25 | 1 |
| Jun 18 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Money In Your Pocket And A Room With A View | ||
| 2. | Monk In The Red Wagon | ||
| 3. | Tiny Insects | ||
| 4. | Amnesia | ||
| 5. | The California, Wyoming Border | ||
| 6. | Foreign Postmark | ||
| 7. | Heavy | ||
| 8. | Victory Lap For The Sporting Individual | ||
| 9. | Wind Up Monkey | ||
| 10. | Know What The Dream Was? | ||
| 11. | Miyazaki | ||
| 12. | Sunny Disposiion | ||
| 13. | Sometimes It All Falls Into Place; The Dogs Are Groomed And Well Fed | ||
| 14. | Free #4 V.2 | ||
| 15. | 1974 | ||
| 16. | Absinthe | ||
| 17. | Miyazaki Reprise |