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Scot Ray Quintet

Active Vapor Recovery

By Scot Ray Quintet

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2003
Track listing: Three Quarks, Above Breath, Shiny Object, In Cleveland, Man as Kite, Scarabaeus, Trouble with Sugar, Active Vapor Recovery, Bitteroot

Scot Ray Quintet: Active Vapor Recovery

by Mark Corroto
October 20, 2003

Trombonist Scot Ray rounds up the usual suspects of West Coast postmodern jazz for this session classified in the ‘unable to classify’ category. The former sideman in Brian Setzer’s swing orchestra pens a few ideas of hs own on Active Vapor Recovery. He has jettisoned swing for an amalgam of fresh funk, rock, chamber, and free ...

Scot Ray Quintet: Active Vapor Recovery

by AAJ Staff
August 25, 2003

While unbridled intensity may have entered the jazz arena during the avant-garde explosions of the '60s, decades still remained before it would be channeled into fifty alternative outlets. One of those, the punk movement of the late '80s and early '90s, brought a number of “rock" listeners across the already-thin boundary into energy music, fueling a ...

Scot Ray Quintet: Active Vapor Recovery

by Dan McClenaghan
June 25, 2003

In your face. That's how the Scot Ray Quintete's Active Vapor Recovery starts out on "Three Quarks." It has to do with attitude and Ray's axe: the trombone, an inherently in-your-face instrument. Ditto for the electric violin (Jeff Gauthier) and the electric guitar in the hands of Nels Cline. Wailing guitar chops and searing violin, combined ...