| West, Rich / Heavenly Breakfast |
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| Album: | Heavenly Breakfast | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | West, Rich | Added: | Nov 2006 | |
| Label: | PfMENTUM | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-01-28 | Pull Date: | 2007-04-01 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 11 | Feb 11 | Feb 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 09, 2007: | Memory Select Detritus Or Treasures | 3. | Feb 02, 2007: | Memory Select Bloomsday | |
| 2. | Feb 10, 2007: | Cognitive Overload Le Petomane | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2007-01-24 | ||
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Free jazz, mostly upbeat, that relies on some brisk modern composing with a sound of its own -- not quite abstract, kind of catchy, but weird enough to get thrown out of a jazz club. Band includes sax/trumpet leads and occasional keys or electronics. Tracks 2 and 4 have unified moods, but the others are built in multiple phases, so the part you're digging at any given moment tends to shift into something totally different within a couple minutes. Feels a bit too mashed-up sometimes, but makes for some nice aural journeys. SoCal band: Bruce Friedman (trumpet), Lynn Johnston (sax/clarinet), Emily Beezhold (electric piano, Korg MS2000), Dan Krimm (electric bass), Rich West (drums, accordion, "pieces") 1- (11:05) Tuneful and nearly straight, mid/fast with a strong air, even gets funky for a bit. 2- (7:01) Spare but mid/fast, a jumbly abstract space that builds a shimmering jazzy sound later 3- (11:38) Upbeat riff (robotically happy) and a loud free-for-all. Then, a quiet improv middle with piano 4- (7:22) Wild and brash, w/ electronics and some dark piano. 5- (8:09) Cool electric-piano groove, after an artsy mid/fast intro, then a quiet segment before a squawky kind of funk ends it. 6- (9:12) Dark, slow start. Later, weird perky dances with Balkan roots and some manic buzzing sax 7- (18:05) Shifts quickly between perky/loud phases and slower, drawn out ones, all quite jazzy but very "outside." Starts with 6 minutes of electronic hum, quiet. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Bloomsday | 4. | Le Petomane | |||
| 2. | A Performer's Objective Is To Put Everyone To Sleep | 5. | Detritus Or Treasures | |||
| 3. | You Never Want To Tell People You're A Scent | 6. | Death Pledge | |||
| 7. | Glenn's Conducting | |||||