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Chad Makela

The Night Crawlers: Down in the Bottom

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 5, 2011

Various shades of indigo, as in the blues, are more than suggested on Down in the Bottom, by Vancouver, Canada's The Night Crawlers. The music is crafted around the alliterative, musical hyperbole-flinging sound of the Hammond B3 organ. Cofounder Cory Weeds suggests that this is tribute to the Hammond B3 bands of the '50s and '60s, ...

Flicker

By Chad Makela

Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2006
Track listing: Flicker; Comfort Level; Secret Code; Seventh Day Rain; Underdog; My Ideal; Uprising.

The Chad Makela Quartet: Flicker

by Jerry D'Souza
June 5, 2006

Chad Makela, who studied and spent his early years as a musician in the US, is now based in Vancouver, Canada. He is among the many who performed at The Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club in that West Coast city. Like a few of them, he recorded for the Cellar Live label, which was established to ...

Chad Makela Quartet: Flicker

by Nic Jones
May 28, 2006

If a cross between the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker and the Ornette Coleman Quartet with Don Cherry had ever been fashioned, it might have sounded something like Flicker. However, such idle conjecture distracts from the fact that this is a group with its own identity, and the fact that six of the seven tracks ...