Groder, Brian & Burton Greene / Groder & Greene
Album: Groder & Greene   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Groder, Brian & Burton Greene   Added:Oct 2009
Label:Latham Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-11-29 Pull Date: 2010-01-31 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Jan 24 Jan 10 Dec 20 Dec 13 Dec 6
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 12, 2022: Music Casserole
Nigh
4. Dec 15, 2009: Memory Select
Sleepwalker
2. Jan 22, 2010: Memory Select
Cryptic Means
5. Dec 09, 2009: ... Over the Hump!
Separate Being
3. Jan 05, 2010: Memory Select
Nigh
6. Dec 01, 2009: Memory Select
Landfall

Album Review
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-11-23
Acoustic free jazz fronted by trumpet, sax, and piano, with plenty of accessible touches. Bright moods, mostly. Track 1 has a particularly organized feel, and track 6 gets a nice drum groove going. For something more abstract, try 3,4,7.

Burton Greene (piano)
Brian Groder (trumpet/flugelhorn)
Rob Brown (alto sax)
Adam Lane (bass)
Ray Sage (drums)

1- Coolly soulful. Crisp trumpet lead with nice late-night piano joining in. Things break apart a bit later, with sax and piano getting into a mid/fast, disjoint free-jazz rumble. Then, like curtains parting, it opens back into simple piano and trumpet, back to the lonely late-night feel.

2- Bright, midtempo sax and drums; creeping piano. A "slow" feel with fast, propulsive drums. Expansive.

3- Slow piano start, like cracking ice. Sax and muted trumpet move carefully. Eventually blossoms into a bustling, disjoint piece. Loosens up considerably for a bass solo.

4- Abstract. Groaning bass; prepared piano that sounds like rubber bands.

5- Spacious but gets moving, with a brisk trumpet and piano duet. Fairly accessible once it gets going.

6- Nice drum groove under some blaring horn statements. At once funky and free. Slower middle, fast-paced ending.

7- Goofing around. Lots of growly vocal sounds followed by a staggered composition. Some spoken phrases later during a heavy-handed, start/stop piano segment.

8- Jazzy. Brisk muted trumpet; later a more midtempo, sinewy sax solo.

9- Darkly midtempo, a quiet, mildly menacing overhang. The "Sleepwalker" title is a nice image.

Track Listing
1. Landfall   5. Cryptic Means
2. Only The Now   6. Nigh
3. Separate Being   7. Hey Pithy, Can You Thropt The Erectus?
4. Amulet   8. Surmised Wink
  9. Sleepwalker