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Tom Abbs & Frequency Response

Hawthorne

By Tom Abbs & Frequency Response

Label: Northern Spy Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Quarter; Regret; Turmoil; Travel; Seeking; Fight; Longing; Bounce; Collide; Binding; Cast.

Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Hawthorne

by Karl Ackermann
September 9, 2018

Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Tom Abbs began his Frequency Response series in 2003 with Conscription (CIMP Records). The group--then a quartet--included tenor saxophonist Brian Settles and drummer Chad Taylor. Alto saxophonist Jason Candler, violinists Jean Cook and Jenna Barvitski are later additions to Frequency Response. On their long-awaited fourth album Hawthorne, Abbs again stands in as a ...

Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Hawthorne

by Don Phipps
August 23, 2018

On his album Hawthorne, Brooklyn-based Tom Abbs showcases his mastery of several instruments and writing styles. Combining free, hard bop, world, and blues styles, Abbs's compositions juxtapose explosive exposés of new music with idioms that hearken back to ancient times. Abbs is joined by Jean Cook and Jenna Barvitski on violin, Brian Settles on ...

Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Lost & Found

by Jerry D'Souza
August 18, 2009

Tom Abbs is a multi-instrumentalist who, besides violin and didgeridoo, plays bass, tuba and cello on this CD. He has enlivened the free jazz scene in New York, not only through his collaborations with Cooper-Moore and Steve Swell among others, but with his music as well. He thinks with a vivid imagination and as such injects ...

Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Lost + Found

by Glenn Astarita
June 28, 2009

Frequency Response's third outing is a study in diversity via a stylistic group sound that touches upon many genres. Cellist/tubaist Tom Abbs is the director of operations throughout a program that integrates chamber jazz, free jazz, and noise-shaping activities amid many other shades of Western song forms. The group abides by a structured approach ...

Conscription

By Tom Abbs & Frequency Response

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Redundant Triangulation/ Diametric Escalation/ Conscription/ Turbulence/ Dichotomy/ Hypertension/ Anti-Torpidity/ Reconciled Dissolution.

Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Conscription

by Derek Taylor
October 14, 2003

Chances are any sort of artistic enterprise that operates outside the mainstream relies on word of mouth for its survival. Grass roots conscription has been integral to creative improvised music since its beginnings. Bassist/tubaist Tom Abbs knows this truism first hand, having been a founding father of Jump Arts, a non-profit enclave of artists and musicians ...