| Eskelin, Ellery / Quiet Music |
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| Album: | Quiet Music | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Eskelin, Ellery | Added: | Jan 2007 | |
| Label: | Prime Source | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-01-14 | Pull Date: | 2007-03-18 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Feb 25 | Feb 18 | Feb 11 | Feb 4 | Jan 28 | Jan 21 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 16, 2007: | Memory Select Tomorrow Is A New Day | 4. | Feb 16, 2007: | Memory Select Like I Say | |
| 2. | Mar 09, 2007: | Memory Select 48 A & B | 5. | Feb 09, 2007: | Memory Select (Baseball Rainout) I Should Have Known | |
| 3. | Feb 23, 2007: | Memory Select Split The Difference | 6. | Feb 02, 2007: | Memory Select Coordinated Universal Time |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2007-01-10 | ||
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Outside jazz sounds, not necessarily quiet, ranging from almost loungy, rhythmic flows (A2) to abstract improv (A5), led by Eskelin's decade-old band of sax, keys(Sampler), and drums. Complemented by wordless vocals (airy female voice) on most tracks. Nice mix of cerebral and visceral stuff. Personnel: Eskelin (sax), Andrea Parkins (sampler/accordion), Jim Black (drums) on every track. Jessica Constable (voice) most of the time. Philippe Gelda (piano on 12, voice on 13, organ on 2,4,13). Side note: Eskelin's trio with Parkins and Black had a great run on Hat records, getting the support to grow and mesh as a band. This CD marks the debut of Eskelin's own label. DISK ONE 1- Stumbling and exploratory, after a quiet intro. Includes a long stretch of sax over "things-falling-apart" background; nicely crazy 2- Flowing, almost loungy. Quite accessible. 3- Slow: chiming chords behind crazed sax/drums stabbings 4- Gentle and romantic, builds into a menacing slowish storm. Powerful, with a very pleasant, melodic ending 5- Stumbly, angular. Controlled chaos at mid/slow speeds. 6- Slow. Starts eerie and swampy, gets sadly melodic. 7- Sparse and often quiet. Opens gently, gets eerie. DISK TWO 1- Upbeat jazzy ditty, w/accordion, almost loungy 2- Peppy, propulsive, maybe a bit cerebral (which is good). First half (3 mins.) piano intro. 3- Gently curving: unacc. sax in a slow vein, then a drawn-out vocal building to a mild frenzy 4- Calm, laid-back, slowish. Cool auto-harmonized vocal. 5- Healthy free-jazz jam. Abrupt change at -2:47 to a happy ringing piano tune, almost Christmasy 6- Heavy slow drama, w/guest male vocal in French 7- The 20-minute heavyweight, kind of a slow power scream. Opens slowly with floaty accordion, a bit tense. Then stern, harsh pulsing: slow, loud, dissonant, broken up by some looser segments. Last 5 minutes include fast sax solo. | ||
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