Schwendener, Ben/Marc Rossi / Living Geometry 2
| Album: | Living Geometry 2 | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Schwendener, Ben/Marc Rossi | Added: | Nov 2004 | |
| Label: | Gravity Arts Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2004-11-22 | Pull Date: | 2005-01-24 | Charts: | Jazz |
|---|
| Week Ending: | Dec 19 | Dec 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 17, 2004: | Memory Select
Conscious Evolution #3 |
3. | Dec 02, 2004: | Multiple Personality Disorder
Origins of the Universe |
|
| 2. | Dec 03, 2004: | Memory Select / guests Amy X. Neuberg & Herb Heinz
A&P Swing #2 |
4. | Dec 01, 2004: | The Dog and Pony Show
Dancing with Laws #3 |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2004-11-18
Reviewed 2004-11-18
Dual-piano pieces combining jazz and classical ideas. Mostly it has the mood of a recital, although there's plenty of fun jazz jamming, mostly in the form of boogie-woogie basslines overlaid with speedy angular soloing.
Track 8 is my particular favorite -- a big, stormy sound with swirly chaos in the improvising.
19-22 add two saxophones (Joe Maneri and Uwe ) for a bigger, wailing sound. 19 introduces some crazy harmonies that don't mesh, a fun chaotic exercise in polytonality. Track 21 is a treat, a big cinematic composition building to a blurry sax battle. Track 22 is a fun, bluesy display played with a slow hand.
Studious -- 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15
Fun boogie-woogie -- 3, 12
Some fast squirrelly bits -- 2, 10, 16, 18
Track Listing
| 1. | Living Geometry #3 | 12. | Opening Night #1 | |||
| 2. | Conscious Evolution #3 | 13. | Living Geometry #4 | |||
| 3. | A&P Swing #2 | 14. | Dancing with Laws #4 | |||
| 4. | Dancing with Laws #3 | 15. | Conscious Evolution #5 | |||
| 5. | Solo Ben | 16. | A&P Swing #3 | |||
| 6. | Solo Marc | 17. | Yky | |||
| 7. | Conscious Evolution 2, #4 | 18. | Pivt Pals #2 | |||
| 8. | Origins of the Universe | 19. | Dancing with Laws #5 | |||
| 9. | Bulgarian Two Step | 20. | Transubstantiation | |||
| 10. | Springloader | 21. | Last Class | |||
| 11. | Pivot Pals #1 | 22. | Opening Night #2 |