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David Taylor-Steve Swell Quintet

David Taylor-Steve Swell Quintet: Not Just...

by AAJ Staff
January 25, 2006

By Safford Chamberlain The names of Billy Bang and Ken Filiano will be familiar to many listeners, and Steve Swell has all the chops, though not the reputation, of a Carl Fontana, to whom he may have listened. What Not Just... most resembles is modernist classical music--Bartok, Stravinsky, Berg, Schoenberg--not just in the overall sound, but ...

Not Just...

By David Taylor-Steve Swell Quintet

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: ETA-Now; SOFAR channel; String Theory; 3 Moon Skies Are Not Rare/Interplanetary Stroll Time; NOT JUST; Down Home; Vamps Dance; Lament; Hoppy Daze is Here Again.

David Taylor-Steve Swell Quintet: Not Just...

by Derek Taylor
August 13, 2005

The hunt for novel instrument groupings is especially hard these days. Between the fields of classical and improvised music, virtually every conceivable sort of aggregate has been attempted at one time or another. Co-chaired by two trombones and rounded out by a trio of strings, this quintet may very well have precedent. But these five cunning ...