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Michael Bates: Outside Sources
by AAJ Staff
Outside Sources successfully confirms Michael Bates’ commitment to freeform exploration. Bates and bandmates Quinsin Nachoff and Mark Timmermans push most of music’s conventional boundaries and the blur of understanding inspires an hour of musical interest. “Tunisian” brings a pulsing start with Nachoff’s off-timed saxophone melody. One pictures a view from atop a camel’s back: while the bass-drum tandem of Bates and Timmermans takes on more than the two dimensions we hear. “Tunisian” reveals a beautiful displacement of rhythm ...
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by Mark Corroto
This new recording by bassist Michael Bates has pop music appeal. I’m not talking about saccharine-covered smooth jazz elevator music, but a jazz record that hooks you and draws you in, with not so much catchy tunes as engaging ideas.
Bates and his fellow Canadian bandmates, drummer Mark Timmermans and saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff, favor a world music meets classical music at the jazz market. Sure, this combination has been cooked up before, it’s just that the flavors chosen ...
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