Grossman, Dottie & Michael Vlatkovitch / Call & Response & Friends
Album: Call & Response & Friends   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Grossman, Dottie & Michael Vlatkovitch   Added:Oct 2011
Label:PfMENTUM  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-10-30 Pull Date: 2012-01-01 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Dec 25 Dec 18 Dec 11 Nov 13 Nov 6
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 23, 2011: Memory Select
Noon Concert
4. Nov 12, 2011: Music Casserole
The Two Times I Loved You Most In A Car
2. Dec 16, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
This Winter
5. Nov 08, 2011: Rebop
Quotation, Early Wednesday Morning, Benjamin Called
3. Dec 06, 2011: Rebop
Mark Weber-Type Poem, Future Past
6. Nov 04, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Two Poems About Trucks

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2011-10-30
GROSSMAN & VLATKOVITCH: Call & Response & Friends
pfMENTUM, 2011

POETRY/FREE JAZZ – It’s a simple formula: Dottie Grossman reads her very short, deadpan poems, there’s a moment’s pause, then a trio led by trombonist Michael Vlatkovitch improvises an equally brief instrumental response. Many of the poems have a subtle, even obscure sense of humor (several are inspired by comedian Henny Youngman, “king of the one-liners”), but there’s a good deal of variety here: some are observations of daily life, others snippets of memory, a few filled with yearning, and the music puts an unexpected spin on most.

34 tracks, most under 2 minutes long. All FCC clean.

Fo’s Picks:
4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 30, 31, 33

[ Fo ] - October 2011

Track Listing
1. Benjamin Called   18. Two More Henny Youngman Poems
2. I Wish   19. Helicopter Noise
3. Tumbleweed   20. This Is What I Do Best
4. Early Wednesday Morning   21. The People Who Hate Wind
5. Veterans Hospital   22. Just Before
6. Mendocino Coast 1967   23. Noon Concert
7. Merry Christmas, Michael   24. Another Nose Poem
8. Two Henny Youngman Poems   25. Definition Of Happiness / If I Were Directing This Movie
9. This Winter   26. From Iceland
10. Two Appropriations   27. Alaska
11. The Two Times I Loved You Most In A Car   28. What Henny Youngman Loves Most About America
12. Two Poems About Trucks   29. Vince Salvino
13. Africa   30. Fortune Cookie
14. Melting Pot   31. Henny Youngman's True Confession
15. Zoey Steps Out   32. Sorry To Disappoint You
16. Quotation   33. Future Past
17. Little Rock   34. Mark Weber-Type Poem