| Cline, Nels / New Monastery |
|---|
| Album: | New Monastery | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Cline, Nels | Added: | Sep 2006 | |
| Label: | Cryptogramophone | |||
| A-File Activity |
|---|
| Add Date: | 2007-03-04 | Pull Date: | 2007-05-06 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | May 6 | Apr 29 | Apr 22 | Apr 8 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 11 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 13, 2010: | The Jazz Hour Reconciliation/New Monastery | 4. | Apr 27, 2007: | Memory Select Mcneil Island/Pumpkin | |
| 2. | Apr 04, 2008: | Memory Select Not Sa No Sa | 5. | Apr 18, 2007: | Baptism of Solitude Compulsion | |
| 3. | May 04, 2007: | Memory Select Yokada Yokada/The Rumproller | 6. | Apr 06, 2007: | Memory Select No Doubt/ 11/8 / Dance With Death |
| Album Review |
|---|
| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2007-03-03 | ||
|
Tribute to Blue Note composer Andrew Hill, played by a (mostly) West-Coast all-star team. Hill did some classic work in the late '60s, taking the popular Miles/Coltrane jazz of the time and adding layers of complexity and density in the writing. His stuff was sophisticated but not avant-garde, very much work checking out. Here, Nels Cline celebrates Hill's compositions with much more of an avant-garde twist. You've still got Hill's composing and that familiar old Blue Note sound in some spots, but with free-improv stretches and jumbly group work in others. The unison themes and group action are looser than on Hill's recordings, in a good way. Track 1 is a good opener that lets you know they had a lot of fun doing this. Nels Cline (guitar), Ben Goldberg (clarinet), Andrea Parkins (accordion, effects), Devin Hoff (bass), Scott Amendola (drums), Alex Cline (percussion on 5 and 7). 1- Sparse but fun: Fast, fluttery, airy. After 3 mins, launches into the theme: quick and jumbly. (6:22) 2- Fast jumbly theme. Slows down for an early bass solo, then some other interesting and out-there solos including Nels. (8:57) 3- Lingering and mysterious. Starts with slow, Euro-cafe accordion; gets eerie and swampy. About 7 minutes in, a slow grand theme that turns into a loud, dark haze (with 11/8 pulse). .... Last 8 minutes: Slow pulsing theme, mysterious sounding. (23:35) 4- Fast and bluesy, w/fun dissonant intro. A go-go feel later, and a brief quiet drop-out. Big fun. (4:52) 5- Slowish, processional theme, into quiet, sensitive solos for guitar and trumpet. (8:06) 6- Straight jazz guitar, mid/fast and relaxed. Easygoing shuffle beat. Second half works off a lush mid/fast theme and gets into some weird accordion in the final minutes. Really nice overall. (10:33) 7- Brisk, fast, w/crazy Nels guitar over jazzy drums, nice and chaotic. Jazzy trumpet solo and knotty clarinet. Great stuff. (11:11) | ||
| Track Listing |
|---|
| 1. | Mcneil Island/Pumpkin | 4. | Yokada Yokada/The Rumproller | |||
| 2. | Not Sa No Sa | 5. | Dedication | |||
| 3. | No Doubt/ 11/8 / Dance With Death | 6. | Reconciliation/New Monastery | |||
| 7. | Compulsion | |||||