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Backstabber's Ball

Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Intro (1:03); 2. DEA (5:53); 3. Good Goooold (7:12); 4. WMD interlude (0:38); 5. WMD (8:30); 6. Late Night Living (3:33); 7. Corporate Jazz (2:58); 8. Conversation for Two (6:33); 9. WMD interlude (0:51); 10. Crescent City Reflections (7:38); 11. Clare Evermore (4:12); 12. WMD interlude (0:59); 13. The Hempire Strikes Back (5:05); 14 Backstabber's Ball (9:49); 15. Outro (1:01).

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Neal Caine: Backstabber's Ball

Read "Backstabber's Ball" reviewed by Jim Santella


It's an odd title for a superb album. The compositions are Neal Caine's, and he leads with a powerful rhythmic stroke from behind his big double bass. Two tenors, Ned Goold and Stephen Riley, give him plenty of lyrical matter, playing it soft and whispery as Caine's quartet emphasizes straight-ahead jazz with a comfortable grasp of ...

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Neal Caine: Backstabber's Ball

Read "Backstabber's Ball" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli


Its title sounds more likely to appear in the heavy metal section of the record store, but sonically Neal Caine's Backstabber's Ball has far more in common with the classic West Coast cool jazz releases of the early '60s than the identikit angst rock of today. As such, it isn't a departure for Smalls Records; rather, ...


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