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Jimmy Weinstein: This Ocean
by Jim Santella
Recorded on April 11, 2005 in New York, this quartet session brings four creative artists together for a program of impressions relating to the never-ending majesty of our Earth's oceans. Flowing seamlessly together with an intuitive cohesiveness, the musicians travel the Seven Seas to find encounters with a wide array of natural oceanic characteristics.
What makes their journey different from an actual ocean voyage (or hours of watching nature films) is the freedom with which Jimmy Weinstein's quartet ...
read moreJimmy Weinstein's Natural Coincidence: This Ocean
by Eyal Hareuveni
Pianist Satoko Fujii and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, rarely lend their services as side players; in recent years they have contributed to recordings by Japanese free jazz pioneer Itaru Oki and the Rova saxophone quartet. But in the last two years Fujii and Tamura committed themselves to a new quartet led by American drummer and composer Jimmy Weinstein, called Natural Coincidence. This fourth member in this quartet is the Japanese bassist Masa Kamaguchi, who has collaborated with Weinstein since ...
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