| Monaco, Amanda 4 / Intention |
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| Album: | Intention | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Monaco, Amanda 4 | Added: | Jun 2007 | |
| Label: | Innova Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-07-29 | Pull Date: | 2007-09-30 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Sep 30 | Sep 16 | Sep 2 | Aug 26 | Aug 19 | Aug 5 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 28, 2007: | Memory Select Old Skool Flava | 4. | Aug 24, 2007: | Memory Select: sfSound and Webern Procrastination | |
| 2. | Sep 14, 2007: | Memory Select Resolution Lift | 5. | Aug 15, 2007: | Where the Girls Are Tel Aviv I Love Her | |
| 3. | Aug 31, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum Tel Aviv I Love Her | 6. | Aug 03, 2007: | Memory Select Resolution Lift |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2007-07-25 | ||
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Second album from NYC jazz guitarist Amanda Monaco, in a quartet with a saxophone in the front line. At times, this is like warm standards jazz, but then you've got tracks that flash a modern writing style (5) or some free-jazz ideas (2,4). Monaco sporting a thoughtful and sometimes jangly sound on jazz guitar. Deceptively mellow; tracks like 1, 3 and 6 build up a nicely cool energy. Good stuff. 1- Slow, pretty, gets a bit stormy later 2- Upbeat bop, a spiky theme. Gets into aggressive free jazz and a spare guitar/bass duet. 3- Soft, slightly exotic. Hard digging bass solo. 4- Avant-garde, with controlled explosions amid slowish wandering. A fuzzed-out guitar sound. 5- Upbeat with an urgent bassline amid relaxed sax/guitar lines. Later, a stern groove with attitude. Catchy stuff. 6- Teetering, slowish intro, kind of pretty but tense. Then a nice mid/fast straight-jazz form. 7- Warm straight-jazz, calmly mid/fast 8- Ballad, soft and warm, big sax tone, unwinds into a gentle untethered guitar-sax duet for a while | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Intention | 5. | Old Skool Flava | |||
| 2. | Resolution Lift | 6. | Deadlines Looming | |||
| 3. | Tel Aviv I Love Her | 7. | Deception | |||
| 4. | Procrastination | 8. | My Man Stan |