| Parker, William Quartet / Petit Oiseau |
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| Album: | Petit Oiseau | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Parker, William Quartet | Added: | 10/2008 | |
| Label: | Aum Fidelity | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-01-18 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-22 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 8 Feb | 1 Feb | 25 Jan |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 17, 2017: | Oh Messy Motion Shorter For Alan | 4. | Jan 31, 2009: | Music Casserole Petit Oiseau | |
| 2. | Dec 11, 2010: | Oh Messy Life Groove Sweet | 5. | Jan 30, 2009: | Memory Select Petit Oiseau | |
| 3. | Feb 04, 2009: | Baptism of Solitude Malachi's Mode | 6. | Jan 23, 2009: | Memory Select Talaps Theme |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-01-12 | ||
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Modern jazz. Most songs are post-bop compositions with healthy, grooving rhythms to them, and a bit of wild fire in some of the sax and trumpet solos (as on 3). The writing is catchy and the group interaction feels nice. All four players have free-jazz credentials, but it's not until the last two tracks that they start to get really out there. William Parker - bass Hamid Drake - drums Rob Brown - alto sax Lewis Barnes - trumpet 1- A suite of grooves. Some nice soloing along the way - nicely accessible track (but 17 mins. long) 2- Catchy bass groove, twisty sax/trumpet double-soloing 3- Upbeat w/springy theme. Some fast, outside soloing 4- Slower and more mysterious, but still a grooving good time 5- Forcefully chugging bop, a jazzy good listen 6- Joyous melodic groove, mid/fast, a touch of South Africa township? Cool bass solo, later a drum solo. 7- Slow: Mystic woodflute. Big-sky searching sax later. 8- More out-there, with a dark, abstract theme but a healthy jamming groove underneath. Includes some more outside group improv and some unaccompanied bass that traverses quiet, inner-space territory. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Groove Sweet | 5. | Four For Tommy | |||
| 2. | Talaps Theme | 6. | Malachi's Mode | |||
| 3. | Petit Oiseau | 7. | Dust From A Mountain | |||
| 4. | The Golden Bell | 8. | Shorter For Alan |