| Romus, Rent / Jazz On The Line With Chico Freeman / Thundershine |
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| Album: | Thundershine | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Romus, Rent / Jazz On The Line With Chico Freeman | Added: | Nov 2008 | |
| Label: | Edgetone Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-01-11 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 1 | Feb 15 | Feb 8 | Feb 1 | Jan 25 | Jan 18 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 27, 2009: | Memory Select, sfSound edition: Le Quan Ninh & Michel Doneda Cameltrot | 4. | Feb 13, 2009: | Pants down in the Oval Office Thundershine | |
| 2. | Feb 22, 2009: | Sunday Afternoon Baseball Rainout Dali Lawnd | 5. | Feb 06, 2009: | Memory Select Moons Of Neptune | |
| 3. | Feb 14, 2009: | Music Casserole Dali Lawnd | 6. | Jan 31, 2009: | Music Casserole Dali Lawnd |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2008-12-20 | ||
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With Chico Freeman, as the title says! Mostly straight jazz, a free-'60s feel. It's a reissue of a 1994 session with local jazzster Rent Romus -- who's into electronics and dark/evil improv these days but was a more directly "jazz" player back then. His soloing here shows an affinity for free jazz, but he also presents a softer and more conventional side. You could call this session "retro," but it's well-done retro, with most of the pieces making for nicely thoughtful excursions. I find myself preferring this date to the later, more free-jazz-leaning stuff Romus would do with John Tchicai. Chico Freeman - (tenor/soprano sax) Rent Romus - (alto/soprano/baritone sax, flute) Jason Olaine - (trumpet) Stefano DeZerega (piano, alto sax) Ben Leinback (drums) Ravi Abcarian (bass) 1- Upbeat and dancing, quite the early '70s influence. Loungy slow piano solo. 2- Nicely bopping, catchy. Does include a couple stretched-out, avant-garde pauses. 3- Soft, slow, w/flute 4- Sax testimony, then an interesting pulse rhythm. Toe-tappingly soulful. 5- A nice dusky '60s feel, with a heavy pulse after a dark intro. Would play well on a straight-jazz show. Includes a long, unaccompanied-sax solo that might be Freeman -? 6- Cocktail piano, laid-back, swingy. 7- Longer version of (2). Includes a quiet drum solo. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Cameltrot | 4. | Thundershine | |||
| 2. | Dali Lawnd | 5. | Moons Of Neptune | |||
| 3. | Q'cee | 6. | Double Dig | |||
| 7. | Dali Lawnd | |||||