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The Pond

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Tomorrow With Be Colder; Furry Buddy; Hide And Seek; Song For Violet.

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Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6: The Pond

by Chris May
April 25, 2008

Listening to Swiss trumpeter Manuel Mengis' cross-genre Gruppe 6 is to hear an intoxicating melange of musics, from bop and free-bop to skronk and groove, in which the spirit of bassist/bandleader Charles Mingus' jazz workshop lives again, recalibrated by geography and history. Mengis' music is less intense in its passions--less tortured and confrontational--than Mingus,' ...