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Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III
By Track review of "The Magician of Lublin"Bassist Garth Stevenson launches "The Magician of Lublin," with a creaky and cranky arco bass riff, segueing the band into a crisp, yet restrained mid-tempo swing vamp. Here, vibraphonist Chris Dingman takes charge via his softly resonating lines, followed by the hornists' linear and odd-metered unison choruses. Soloing ensues as the frontline injects many emotive qualities into the schema, with Eisenstadt kicking it up a few notches, only to throttle it back.
Ultimately, the musicians explore, counteract, and work within an airy and wide open soundscape. The players trace the storyline either with temperance or by rendering edgy intonations atop swing and bop parameters. However, they variegate the pitch and close the piece out with zesty choruses, treated with unconventional time signatures.
Eisenstadt produces yet another winning combination of ideas and disparate formats, and leads his band into a many-sided incursion, sparked by his thought-provoking compositions.
Track Listing
Slow and Steady ; Settled; A Whole New Amount of Interactivity; The Magician of Lublin; Song for Sara; Nosey Parker; Shuttle off this Mortal Coil; King of the Kutiriba.
Personnel
Harris Eisenstadt
drumsHarris Eisenstadt: drums, compositions; Garth Stevenson: bass; Chris Dingman: vibraphone; Nate Wooley: trumpet; Matt Bauder: tenor saxophone.
Album information
Title: Canada Day III | Year Released: 2012 | Record Label: Songlines Recordings
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About Harris Eisenstadt
Instrument: Drums
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