| Ochs, Larry / Sax & Drumming Core / Up From Under |
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| Album: | Up From Under | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Ochs, Larry / Sax & Drumming Core | Added: | Oct 2007 | |
| Label: | Atavistic/Truckstop Audio | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-11-25 | Pull Date: | 2008-01-27 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 27 | Jan 6 | Dec 23 | Dec 9 | Dec 2 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 02, 2012: | Jazz Iz and Den Some Poporfa | 4. | Jun 13, 2008: | Memory Select Up From Under | |
| 2. | Apr 08, 2010: | Memory Select Dragons Fly | 5. | Feb 01, 2008: | Memory Select Neonawi | |
| 3. | May 15, 2009: | Memory Select Up From Under | 6. | Jan 25, 2008: | Memory Select Poporfa |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2007-11-23 | ||
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Saxophone and two drummers, playing free jazz that often deals a deft, subtle hand but can also get crazy. You get some nicely blazing free jazz but lots of long, thoughtful passages too. The drummers, Scott Amendola and Donald Robinson, do a great job creating an interwoven sound without creating a big crashing mess. Larry Ochs on sax is the lead voice, spinning free-form melodies mixed in with some downright cool sax tricks. These pieces aren't purely improvised but are compositions by Ochs (one co-written with Amendola). 1- Brash midtempo, tumbling and aggressive from the start. Cools down later but stays edgy. 2- An almost mournful melody, sparse and a bit Balkan-influenced. Delicate drumming w/brushes, very nice. 3- Softly declarative. Lots of quiet snare, and sharply buzzy sax chirping. Brash later but stays spacious. 4- The catchy, energetic one. Starts with a jazzy sad melody w/Persian exotic touch. After 4 minutes, second half gets into a driven fast beat and a blazing ending. 5- Softly urgent, tense. Mid/fast rhythms. Gets into fast fluttering and tribal pounding. 6- Jazzy: Rolling, snappy, loud. With a soothing drum interlude. 7- Quiet, almost an Asian tone, with soft toms drumming that sounds really cool. 8- A choppy, buzzy, free-jazz flow. Nicely rough-edged, fast/dark. Careens around like an aria, like a storytelling. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Up From Under | 5. | Neonawi | |||
| 2. | Dragons Fly | 6. | Poporfa | |||
| 3. | X-10 | 7. | X-09 | |||
| 4. | And Nothing But... | 8. | Finn Passes Pluto |