| Frazier, Colter Quartet / Colter Frazier Quartet |
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| Album: | Colter Frazier Quartet | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Frazier, Colter Quartet | Added: | 12/2008 | |
| Label: | PfMENTUM | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-01-11 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 8 Mar | 1 Mar | 15 Feb | 8 Feb | 1 Feb | 25 Jan | 18 Jan |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 06, 2009: | Memory Select Hopes Of Reunification | 4. | Feb 13, 2009: | Memory Select Flight School For Sparrow | |
| 2. | Feb 27, 2009: | Memory Select, sfSound edition: Le Quan Ninh & Michel Doneda Where000 | 5. | Feb 11, 2009: | Hand Wash in Coleslaw Flight School For Sparrow | |
| 3. | Feb 22, 2009: | Sunday Afternoon Baseball Rainout 4 Days And 5 Months | 6. | Feb 08, 2009: | B-Side Sunday Special 4 Days And 5 Months |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-01-04 | ||
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Sax/violin-led quartet. Modern compositions that are plenty accessible but don't follow the usual "jazz" chords and harmonies. It's quite melody-driven, like Ornette Coleman or Tim Berne, where the "melody" often paints with a Euro/classical brush (or maybe that's just the influence of the violin on my brain). 1- Tense, fleet riffing after a slow start. Definite Euro-cafe influence, catchy. 2- Serious start, into some rapid unison playing, a bit jittery. Then a sparse, slow sax improv. 3- Sneaky mid/fast beat, quiet but not so calm 4- Fast, kinda Klezmery flight. Rapid 5/8 pulse, really draws you in. 5- Slow and artsy. Lots of abstract drum improv. 6- Very fast theme. A quiet interlude early on, then some riffs for double soloing of sax plus all manner of percussion. 7- A lovely dusky melody. Very out-there improv middle. 8- Slowish classical drama. Nice bowed-bass solo. 9- Flitty, flighty. Stacatto feel. 10- Pleasantly staggering; nicely adventurous viola solo 11- Quick classical pulse, maybe a touch of minimalism. An intriguing short piece. 12- Pastoral. Comforting sax riff, tender violin solo, rattly but light drumming. | ||
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