| Mchenry, Bill / Roses |
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| Album: | Roses | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Mchenry, Bill | Added: | 09/2007 | |
| Label: | Sunnyside Communications | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-11-18 | Pull Date: | 2008-01-20 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 20 Jan | 6 Jan | 23 Dec | 16 Dec | 25 Nov |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 04, 2009: | Jena & Gomorrah Photo-Synthetic | 4. | Jan 18, 2008: | Memory Select The City | |
| 2. | Jan 25, 2008: | Memory Select The Lizard | 5. | Jan 04, 2008: | Memory Select The Lizard | |
| 3. | Jan 25, 2008: | No Cover, No Minimum African Song | 6. | Dec 21, 2007: | Memory Select The City |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2007-11-10 | ||
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BILL McHENRY: Roses Sunnyside, 2007 This set of serious – even gloomy – modern jazz achieves a strange sort of dreary beauty, but it’s no fun at all. The songs have amorphous shapes and indefinite rhythms, but also seem heavily scripted much of the time. Still, the quartet features some serious chops, so it's all very well played and worth a spin… but only if you’re in a glum mood. Fo’s Picks: 2, 5 … maybe 4, 6, 7 1. 6:10 – moody fanfare, mumbles and pulls amorphously, gets a bit agitated 2. 4:26 – a more optimistic sound, melodic sax/guitar bits in a bubbling stew 3. 4:46 – quiet, open, freeform sound, picks up a bit over gloomy drone 4. 3:49 – controlled, atmospheric cacophony: evokes the din of New York City 5. 4:44 – interesting melody on this one; slow with deep, saturated tones 6. 9:00 – guitar & sax take turns heating up & boiling over; nifty free drumming 7. 8:06 – sax wanders over droning note, then bass spars with sax, drums 8. 3:26 – odd stepping-stone melody, very deliberate pace 9. 4:20 – duet: sax tiptoes around dark, futuristic guitar [ Fo ] 10-Nov-07 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Roses | 5. | The New One | |||
| 2. | African Song | 6. | The Lizard | |||
| 3. | The Abyss Opens Up | 7. | Keys Of C | |||
| 4. | The City | 8. | Symphony | |||
| 9. | Photo-Synthetic | |||||