Frazier, Colter Quartet / Colter Frazier Quartet
| Album: | Colter Frazier Quartet | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Frazier, Colter Quartet | Added: | Dec 2008 | |
| Label: | PfMENTUM | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-01-11 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Mar 8 | Mar 1 | Feb 15 | Feb 8 | Feb 1 | Jan 25 | Jan 18 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 06, 2009: | Memory Select
Hopes Of Reunification |
4. | Feb 13, 2009: | Memory Select
Flight School For Sparrow |
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| 2. | Feb 27, 2009: | Memory Select, sfSound edition: Le Quan Ninh & Michel Doneda
Where000 |
5. | Feb 11, 2009: | Hand Wash in Coleslaw
Flight School For Sparrow |
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| 3. | Feb 22, 2009: | Sunday Afternoon Baseball Rainout
4 Days And 5 Months |
6. | Feb 08, 2009: | B-Side Sunday Special
4 Days And 5 Months |
Album Review
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-01-04
Reviewed 2009-01-04
Sax/violin-led quartet. Modern compositions that are plenty accessible but don't follow the usual "jazz" chords and harmonies. It's quite melody-driven, like Ornette Coleman or Tim Berne, where the "melody" often paints with a Euro/classical brush (or maybe that's just the influence of the violin on my brain).
1- Tense, fleet riffing after a slow start. Definite Euro-cafe influence, catchy.
2- Serious start, into some rapid unison playing, a bit jittery. Then a sparse, slow sax improv.
3- Sneaky mid/fast beat, quiet but not so calm
4- Fast, kinda Klezmery flight. Rapid 5/8 pulse, really draws you in.
5- Slow and artsy. Lots of abstract drum improv.
6- Very fast theme. A quiet interlude early on, then some riffs for double soloing of sax plus all manner of percussion.
7- A lovely dusky melody. Very out-there improv middle.
8- Slowish classical drama. Nice bowed-bass solo.
9- Flitty, flighty. Stacatto feel.
10- Pleasantly staggering; nicely adventurous viola solo
11- Quick classical pulse, maybe a touch of minimalism. An intriguing short piece.
12- Pastoral. Comforting sax riff, tender violin solo, rattly but light drumming.
1- Tense, fleet riffing after a slow start. Definite Euro-cafe influence, catchy.
2- Serious start, into some rapid unison playing, a bit jittery. Then a sparse, slow sax improv.
3- Sneaky mid/fast beat, quiet but not so calm
4- Fast, kinda Klezmery flight. Rapid 5/8 pulse, really draws you in.
5- Slow and artsy. Lots of abstract drum improv.
6- Very fast theme. A quiet interlude early on, then some riffs for double soloing of sax plus all manner of percussion.
7- A lovely dusky melody. Very out-there improv middle.
8- Slowish classical drama. Nice bowed-bass solo.
9- Flitty, flighty. Stacatto feel.
10- Pleasantly staggering; nicely adventurous viola solo
11- Quick classical pulse, maybe a touch of minimalism. An intriguing short piece.
12- Pastoral. Comforting sax riff, tender violin solo, rattly but light drumming.
Track Listing
| 1. | Lloyd's Prayer | 7. | Flight School For Sparrow | |||
| 2. | Hopes Of Reunification | 8. | Unknown Strain 2 | |||
| 3. | Where000 | 9. | Lunch With Osby | |||
| 4. | 4 Days And 5 Months | 10. | Lonely Friday | |||
| 5. | August Ballad | 11. | 1-22-07 | |||
| 6. | Late Again | 12. | Focus |