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SJZ Collective Reimagines Monk
Label: Retlaw Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Green Chimneys; ‘Round Midnight; Ask Me Now; Blue Monk.
SJZ Collective: SJZ Collective Reimagines Monk
by Doug Collette
Until a saucy swagger kicks in on the fourth and final track, Blue Monk," it's difficult if not impossible to recognize this music as a tribute to the late Thelonious Monk And that's perfectly appropriate--no similarly-conceived homage should be overly familiar. But it is also a tribute to the ingenuity of the SJZ Collective, and the ...
Idiot Fish
Label: Retlaw Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Market Fresh; Breath Takers; Erroneous; Ferns; Prohibition 21; Sleeper Class; Poolside; Squanches; Sweetener.
Wally Schnalle: Idiot Fish
by Tyran Grillo
For his ninth album as leader, and with over 40 years of experience at the kit, drummer-composer Wally Schnalle has pulled out all the stops. Working sound bytes into delicate infusions of soul, jazz, and electronica, Schnalle nourishes an integrated field of sound that at once evokes seventies nostalgia and progressive futurism. Toward achieving this effect, ...
The Suit
Label: Retlaw Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Wheels Of Agraz; Flowk; Shouldn't Be That Way; 15th Street Rundown; Red Marty; That Road; Do That; Emdecici; Suit Suite: Wear That Suit, Excellent Choice, How's The Fit?
Wally Schnalle: The Suit
by Stephen Latessa
"The Suit," drummer Wally Schnalle writes in the liner notes to his new album of the same name, is simply a metaphor for a myriad of musical constraints such as: idiom, genre, common practice, expectations, bag, style, and convention. Each of these, and more, I find can impose severe limitations on creativity. And so the straight ...
Wally Schnalle: That Place
by Joel Roberts
Drummer Wally Schnalle leads an impressive West Coast ensemble on an album of what could be called post post-bop." More precisely, it's modern, exploratory jazz that still, generally, retains melody and recognizable form.Schnalle's 11 original compositions here range from hard funk to almost-free jazz. A few of the tunes put me in mind of ...