| Osby, Greg / Nine Levels |
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| Album: | Nine Levels | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Osby, Greg | Added: | 04/2009 | |
| Label: | Inner Circle Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-09-13 | Pull Date: | 2009-11-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 1 Nov | 18 Oct | 4 Oct | 27 Sep |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 27, 2009: | Memory Select Principle | 3. | Sep 29, 2009: | Memory Select [new Tuesday time!] Innocence | |
| 2. | Oct 13, 2009: | Memory Select, guest Aram Shelton Truth | 4. | Sep 20, 2009: | Transmission Overload Resilience |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-09-04 | ||
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Modern sorta-mainstream jazz: a cool slick sound masking complicated jazz with some angular soloing ideas. Intelligent and grooving. In some ways, Osby is a paragon of modern jazz. An Osby sax solo will dart like a hummingbird but leave a steely, hard-edged path in its wake. Along the way you realize he did a lot of crazy things without sounding too "out." Like Steve Coleman, he's working to expand the jazz vocabulary while working within the jazz tradition. Greg Osby -- alto, soprano sax Sara Serpa -- vocals Adam Birnbaum -- piano Nir Felder -- guitar Joseph Lepore -- bass Hamir Atwal -- drums 1- Perky, darting theme over careful piano. Cool guitar solo. 2- Cooldown mode, but still a flinty groove. Randomly, wordless vocals near the end. 3- Slow. Floating and mysterious backdrop for a nicely energetic and bright sax solo on soprano sax. 4- Smoothly jabbing and grooving theme. Nicely flowing piano solo. Lushly angular guitar solo. 5- Airy mid/fast theme with wordless vocal. 6- Velvety, wandering midtempo theme. Takes its time, then blossoms apart for slow-burning free soloing 7- Lush song (w/lyrics). Slowish, mellow, poppy. Listen to how the sax follows the vowel sounds in the vocals; it's an uncanny effect. 8- Lightly midtempo. Mostly soft an relaxed, but Osby's piping solo adds some adventurous color. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Principle | 5. | Less Tension Please | |||
| 2. | Tolerance | 6. | Resilience | |||
| 3. | Humility | 7. | Two Of One | |||
| 4. | Truth | 8. | Innocence | |||
| 9. | Optimism | |||||