| Old Dog / By Any Other Name |
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| Album: | By Any Other Name | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Old Dog | Added: | 06/2009 | |
| Label: | Porter Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-07-19 | Pull Date: | 2009-09-20 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 20 Sep | 6 Sep | 23 Aug | 16 Aug | 2 Aug | 26 Jul |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 16, 2009: | Brownian Motion Round And Round | 4. | Aug 21, 2009: | Memory Select By Any Other Name (Trio Version) | |
| 2. | Sep 15, 2009: | Jena & Gomorrah Get Convoked By Any Other Name (Quartet Version) | 5. | Aug 14, 2009: | Memory Select: RIP Rashied Ali Endless Return | |
| 3. | Sep 04, 2009: | Memory Select Round And Round | 6. | Aug 09, 2009: | Transmission Overload Endless Return |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-07-18 | ||
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Jazz quartet with sax and vibraphone; modern/free composing ideas and some improvised tracks that sometimes fall into grooves and riffs but also offer plenty of free/abstract playing (2,4,7,8). It's four old guys in the band. Louie Belogenis throws in some energetic sax, and Karl Berger on vibes is terrific as well. For something catchy, try 2 or 6 ... or 4, which starts out abstract but develops a groove. Michael Bisio - bass, composing (on the non-improvised tracks) Karl Berger - vibes, piano Louie Belogenis - tenor sax Warren Smith - drums 1- Slow; a cross between lovely and foreboding, based on a nice bass theme 2- A strong pulsing bass, tense piano. A really good mid/fast track 3- Dribbly theme, into fast fast soloing 4- Dark, grumpy. Noisy sawed bass, sax gets spastic and harsh (but not overly loud). Gets into a driven little groove that's quite nice. 5- A slowish, wandering piece, with spirited drums 6- Bright and swingy. 7- Improvised. A slow and big sound, with buzzy sax 8- Eleven-minute improvised piece. Buzzy, towering mid/slow sax early on; a splashy vibes solo in the middle. 9- Reprise of 1, with vibraphone added. There's a relaxed and open bass solo late in the piece, with Bisio playing a warbling and wandering pizzicato behind quiet vibes and drums. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | By Any Other Name (Trio Version) | 5. | Living Large | |||
| 2. | Endless Return | 6. | Zephyr Revisited | |||
| 3. | Swa Swu Sui | 7. | Who Are You? | |||
| 4. | Round And Round | 8. | Constellation | |||
| 9. | By Any Other Name (Quartet Version) | |||||