| Mazurek, Rob Quintet / Sound Is |
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| Album: | Sound Is | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Mazurek, Rob Quintet | Added: | May 2009 | |
| Label: | Delmark Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-07-12 | Pull Date: | 2009-09-13 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Sep 13 | Sep 6 | Aug 30 | Aug 23 | Aug 16 | Aug 9 | Aug 2 | Jul 26 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 31, 2010: | Music Casserole Beauty Wolf | 4. | Sep 04, 2009: | Memory Select The Dream Rocker/Beauty Wolf | |
| 2. | Sep 11, 2009: | Memory Select - w/The Bad Plus Cinnamon Tree | 5. | Aug 28, 2009: | Memory Select - Joe Maneri Edition The Earthquake Tree | |
| 3. | Sep 11, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum The Hill | 6. | Aug 22, 2009: | Music Casserole The Hill, Nora Grace |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-07-13 | ||
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Free jazz richly steeped in '60s jazz ideas -- lots of melody and soul, but also nice freely structured jams (2,3). Chiming vibes put a breezy air to the music. Even the clattery abstract tracks like 12 have a floaty quality to them (probably just the feeling I associate with vibraphone). Random splashes of electronics here and there -- not overbearing, but enough to let you know Mazurek isn't neglecting that side of his music. 1- Chiming vibes over a sense of disquiet 2- Snappy and breezy. Briskly aggressive drums. 3- Expansive, mid/fast free sprawl, but somehow laid-back in its purpose. SEGUES into: 4- Dark mysterious. Slowish groove, nicely pulsing, a warm dark summer midnight 5- Catchy: Lumbering mid/fast 6/8 riff 6- A soft, slow chiming, more warm than doomy (but a little doomy) 7- Freely rolling, and easygoing flow. SEGUES: 8- Relaxed, with a cool snap to the trumpet melody. Airy and catchy. 9- Breezy trumpet, bashing drums. SEGUES into: 10- A creeping little non-ballet with curly future/electronics sounds. Opens abstractly, shifts into a mellow melody 11- Trumpet solo over a chiming background. Gets more intense, with some electronics manipulation, until the background is nearly shrill. A very cool experimental little track. SEGUES into: 12- Dire tension. Clashing and abstract. 13- A pretty and light chiming. (No trumpet.) Fades early 14- Little kid singing and playing the piano. Cute, off-key. Opens with random electronics splash. | ||
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