Haffner, Jonathon / Life On Wednesday
| Album: | Life On Wednesday | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Haffner, Jonathon | Added: | Oct 2009 | |
| Label: | Cachuma Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-12-27 | Pull Date: | 2010-02-28 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Feb 28 | Feb 7 | Jan 24 | Jan 17 | Jan 10 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 26, 2010: | Memory Select, early edition
Radio One |
4. | Jan 15, 2010: | Memory Select, new friday time
Radio One |
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| 2. | Feb 05, 2010: | Memory Select
Time Time |
5. | Jan 08, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum
Radio One |
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| 3. | Jan 22, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum
Radio One |
6. | Jan 05, 2010: | Memory Select
Formings |
Album Review
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Reviewed 2009-12-24
Reviewed 2009-12-24
JONATHON HAFFNER: Life on Wednesday
Cachuma, 2009
MODERN JAZZ – Saxophonist Haffner leads a hot, grinding electro-acoustic sextet, loaded with top talent and featuring two drummers. Really good stuff; relatively straight rock-jazz romps for the most part, with a few diversions into free improv (4) or open soundscapes (5,10).
Jonathon Haffner - alto sax, clarinet
Craig Taborn - piano, wurlitzer, electronics
Wayne Krantz - guitar
Eivind Opsvik - acoustic & electric bass
Jochen Rueckert & Kenny Wollesen - drums
* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9
1. 4:57 – perky, oblique stomp; chugs under bouncy sax, gloopy electronics
2. 3:18 – skittery drum intro; catchy melody with a rock beat, falls apart
3. 6:42 – slow ballad; lumpy guitar solo, jittery piano
4. 3:19 – brash unison theme, jumps into high-energy free jazz
5. 10:42 – quiet mechanized burbling, cute electronic accents; lonely sax starts about 4:00 in, gradually adopts churning groove & nasty wail
6. 1:00 – solo horn; high & thoughtful; leads right into #7
7. 4:51 – relaxed jazz-rock melody, guitar churns it up
8. 1:01 – solo horn: relaxed, spacious
9. 3:48 – starts out laid back, but sax really gets cranking; guitar brigs it back
10. 2:40 – clarinet floats slowly over a weird, open landscape; angular tones
11. 6:53 – serious tune; sax keeps it simple, piano flows, builds to strong finish
[ Fo ] 12/24/09
Cachuma, 2009
MODERN JAZZ – Saxophonist Haffner leads a hot, grinding electro-acoustic sextet, loaded with top talent and featuring two drummers. Really good stuff; relatively straight rock-jazz romps for the most part, with a few diversions into free improv (4) or open soundscapes (5,10).
Jonathon Haffner - alto sax, clarinet
Craig Taborn - piano, wurlitzer, electronics
Wayne Krantz - guitar
Eivind Opsvik - acoustic & electric bass
Jochen Rueckert & Kenny Wollesen - drums
* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9
1. 4:57 – perky, oblique stomp; chugs under bouncy sax, gloopy electronics
2. 3:18 – skittery drum intro; catchy melody with a rock beat, falls apart
3. 6:42 – slow ballad; lumpy guitar solo, jittery piano
4. 3:19 – brash unison theme, jumps into high-energy free jazz
5. 10:42 – quiet mechanized burbling, cute electronic accents; lonely sax starts about 4:00 in, gradually adopts churning groove & nasty wail
6. 1:00 – solo horn; high & thoughtful; leads right into #7
7. 4:51 – relaxed jazz-rock melody, guitar churns it up
8. 1:01 – solo horn: relaxed, spacious
9. 3:48 – starts out laid back, but sax really gets cranking; guitar brigs it back
10. 2:40 – clarinet floats slowly over a weird, open landscape; angular tones
11. 6:53 – serious tune; sax keeps it simple, piano flows, builds to strong finish
[ Fo ] 12/24/09
Track Listing
| 1. | Time Time | 6. | Big Wheel | |||
| 2. | Radio One | 7. | Tuesday Night Danny | |||
| 3. | New Mexico | 8. | Freewheel | |||
| 4. | Western Wren (The Bird Call) | 9. | Wednesday Night Firsts | |||
| 5. | Formings | 10. | Maybe Mexico | |||
| 11. | New Year | |||||