| Shelton, Aram / Fast Citizens / Two Cities |
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| Album: | Two Cities | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Shelton, Aram / Fast Citizens | Added: | 12/2009 | |
| Label: | Delmark Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-01-24 | Pull Date: | 2010-03-28 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 28 Mar | 14 Mar | 7 Mar | 21 Feb | 14 Feb | 7 Feb | 31 Jan |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 22, 2010: | Jena & Gomorrah The Twenty-Seven | 4. | Mar 05, 2010: | Memory Select, Other Minds edition The Twenty-Seven | |
| 2. | Mar 26, 2010: | Memory Select, late edition Big News | 5. | Feb 19, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum Easy | |
| 3. | Mar 12, 2010: | Memory Select Two Cities | 6. | Feb 12, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum Western Promenade |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2010-01-24 | ||
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ARAM SHELTON’S FAST CITIZENS: Two Cities Delmark, 2009 AVANT-GARDE – This impressive Chicago sextet brings some really interesting textures to bear with cello hovering between the horns and bass. Musically they’re vibrant and all over the place, slipping easily between oddball themes, straight-up jazz and free-blowing tangents. Note: this band has rotating leadership: their first CD was under Keefe Jackson’s name. Also, Shelton lives in Oakland, hence “Two Cities.” Aram Shelton: alto sax & clarinet Keefe Jackson: tenor sax & bass clarinet Josh Berman: cornet Fred Lomberg-Holm: cello Anton Hatwich: bass Frank Rosaly: drums * * * * | All good. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 3, 7, 9 1. 10:53 – rollicking theme collapses; aggressive sax vs. sawing cello over wild drums; fades and returns with exotic flavor, methodical cornet 2. 8:04 – cello intro; cool groove slides under chatty horns, great sax & drums 3. 9:01 – goofy theme; cornet/bass go walkin’, then clarinet; rolling drum solo 4. 4:07 – spinning minimalism w/circus-march flair, then silent pauses & stings 5. 9:09 – ponderous spiral theme; band creates unique spaces for each solo 6. 3:54 – slow, ballad-like calm with unusual harmonic texture, mournful sax 7. 7:56 – elastic intro, cornet & cello have it out, sax rolls over perky backing 8. 1:19 – whipped-up interlude: fun theme, free breaks, cut-off ending 9. 4:49 – great little spy-movie groove walks under sax solo, splinters apart [ Fo ] 01/23/10 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Two Cities | 5. | In Cycles | |||
| 2. | Big News | 6. | I Am Here, You Are There | |||
| 3. | Western Promenade | 7. | The Twenty-Seven | |||
| 4. | Vrc#9 | 8. | Wontkins | |||
| 9. | Easy | |||||