| Mahanthappa, Rudresh / Codebook |
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| Album: | Codebook | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Mahanthappa, Rudresh | Added: | Oct 2006 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-11-05 | Pull Date: | 2007-01-07 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 7 | Dec 31 | Dec 17 | Nov 26 | Nov 19 | Nov 12 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 15, 2016: | Rebop Enhanced Performance | 4. | Dec 29, 2006: | Memory Select Wait It Through | |
| 2. | Sep 16, 2011: | razor's edge Enhanced Performance | 5. | Dec 15, 2006: | No Cover, No Minimum Frontburner | |
| 3. | Jan 04, 2007: | Lines and Dots Further In Between | 6. | Nov 24, 2006: | Memory Select Further In Between |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2006-11-03 | ||
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Sax/piano quartet, with an accessibly but complexly modern sound. Touches of funk and kind of a rough street-sax tone, and a bit of the "ultramodern" stuff Mahanthappa has done with Fieldwork (pianist Vijay Iyer from that band is here). Thinking man's jazz that's not to obscure to have a swing to it. Mahanthappa and Iyer are part of a very interesting corner of New York jazz these days; all their stuff is well worth checking out. Hidden in the music are lots of codes and number patterns ... #4, for example, is apparently built around the number 142857. And there's a code wheel and coded message inside -- check it out before we lose it! 1- Strong tough sound, fast, great sax solo. 2- Midtempo steady chugging, nicely heavy feel. 3- Funky in an off-kilter way. *Fast* fluttery sax solo. 4- Strong glassy tone, mid/fast, w/some tough sax soloing 5- Sparse popping intro (band members playing their names in Morse code!). Into light piano, then fast, bubbly sax. Quiet end. 6- Fast sax attack 7- Mid/fast herky-jerky theme, into loose free group soloing 8- Cascading mid/fast, rather busy. Bass & drum solos. 9- Lyrical and pretty. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | The Decider | 5. | Play It Again Sam | |||
| 2. | Refresh | 6. | Frontburner | |||
| 3. | Enhanced Performance | 7. | D (Dee-Dee) | |||
| 4. | Further In Between | 8. | Wait It Through | |||
| 9. | My Sweetest | |||||