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Dom Minasi: Takin' The Duke Out

Read "Takin' The Duke Out" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


What's the best way to artistically interpret the musical creations of former jazz masters? Many current day artists have given musical tributes which have resulted in merely carbon remakes that reside safely in the boundaries of the original intents. Purists would claim that sacred music canons should not be tampered with frivolously; while experimentalists ...

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Dom Minasi: Takin' the Duke Out

Read "Takin' the Duke Out" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Though guitarist Dom Minasi was born on the same day as the great Wes Montgomery, the resemblance stops there. Minasi refuses to abide by bop's conventions of harmony, rhythm, or melody--instead, he breaks music down into its smallest parts and reassembles them in a rough, angular collage of sound. Fragments of melody, repeated trills, and leaping ...

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The Dom Minasi Trio: Takin' The Duke Out

Read "Takin' The Duke Out" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A postmodern treatment of Ellington.If the central premise of postmodern deconstructionism can be defined that all literary (and other) criticism is entirely subjective- that all texts are relative to one's personal interpretation and experience, then Takin' the Duke Out is a postmodern monument. In this case, renowned free jazz guitarist Dom Minasi takes the ...

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Takin' The Duke Out

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2001
Track listing: Satin Doll; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good; Take the A Train; Solitude; It Don't Mean a thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Total Time: 53:44).

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Dom Minasi: Takin' The Duke Out

Read "Takin' The Duke Out" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A Postmodern treatment of Ellington. If the central premise Postmodern Deconstructionism can be defined that all literary (and other) criticism is entirely subjective-- that all texts are relative to one's personal interpretation and experience, then Takin' the Duke Out is a Postmodern monument. In this case, renowned free jazz guitarist Dom Minasi ...


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