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Scrapbook
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0700435713321
Label: Thirsty Ear
Manufacturer: Thirsty Ear
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Thirsty Ear
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Studio: Thirsty Ear
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Rating:  - Drop the violin
Interesting bass and drum playing, but the screeching violin gave me a headache. And this is by no means "the great jazz album of 2003". I want my money back.
Rating:  - They walk the walk and talk the talk
Danged if I know what it is about the sound of the acoustic bass under the fingers of some - like Charles Mingus or Mr William Parker - but it has a power, attention getting lyricism, that rivets one's attention. It may be the bass is closest to the rhythm of the heart or is synchronitic with atmospheric radio waves that move through the body, but it is very affecting. Mr Parker's solo on SUNDAY MORNING CHURCH is at once reverent and joyful and elegiac - a powerful moment.
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Rating: - The finest jazz album of 2003, period.
Thirsty Ear, currently the jazz label to look to for innovation, has lately blazed a modest trend out of releasing music that often has one foot in cross-over funk and hip-hop, as well as a small group of releases that favor a more improvisational esthetic. William Parker's Scrapbook fits into the latter category. This is not to say the record doesn't occasionally groove, but it is so much more than that. The playing captures improvisation of the highest order, almost telepathic in its intensity.
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Rating: - Excellent jazz, improvised and flowing
William Parker and Hamid Drake again set the pace, this time with Billy Bang providing gorgeous jazz violin. Another one to check out is the trio with Roy Campbell as the named leader on Ethnic Stew and Brew on the Delmark label. These cats (or lions) are providing some great jazz that has its eye on the past and its feet firmly in the present.
Rating: - What a waste of time......
....being at work when I could be at home listening to this.
Superb. Totally agree that this is the jazz album of the year so far. I'm itching to get back home and listen to it again.
The Blue Series continues to release excellent stuff. How refreshing not to be reaching for back catalogues of established artists from years ago but instead to be thoroughly entertained by music that is all new and innovative.
The music on this CD is perhaps more accessible than some of the other titles ... Read More
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