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2010-09-13
For this release, Claudia Quintet leader/composer, John Hollenbeck, began by collecting song titles. He then wrote music inspired by these words and phrases with no thought as to their meaning, thus removing any context from them. The result is almost free jazz; but this is actually melodic and often quiet. The most interesting songs here are "Keramag" and "Armitage Shanks", which are both mid-tempo with tight arrangements. Rebecca Ruth
SHANNON BRYANT
Oceano
MICROSCOPIC SEPTET
Surrealistic Swing
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
JOE HENRY
Civilians
ED PALERMO BIG BAND
Eddy Loves Frank
THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA
Rising Sun
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