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Album Review

Cadwallader, Asetta & Dixson: Quicker Than The Eye

Read "Quicker Than The Eye" reviewed by Michael McCaw

by Michael McCaw
August 25, 2005

Quicker Than The Eye is not your standard piano trio fare. Pianist Rex Cadwallader, bassist Mike Asetta, and drummer Ati Dixson are pushing the excepted norms of how different camps of jazz are defined through original and inspired playing. Whether or not you are willing to listen depends on how staunch you are concerning the brand of jazz you affiliate yourself with.Boasting a style that straddles the common precepts of what the smooth and straight-ahead jazz idioms are ...

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Album Review

Cadwallader, Asetta & Dixon: Quicker Than the Eye

Read "Quicker Than the Eye" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 27, 2005

In the competitive world of the jazz trio, you have to distinguish yourself, or else you run the risk of fading into the background along with the countless others who may have a certain degree of talent, but lack the personal vision to lend their music the distinction necessary to draw listeners in for the long haul. Pianist Rex Cadwallader and his trio with electric bassist Mike Asetta and drummer Arti Dixon clearly have skill. But unfortunately, they demonstrate little ...