Jazz Articles about Chad Makela

About Chad Makela

Album Review

The Chad Makela Quartet: Flicker

Read "Flicker" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
June 5, 2006

Chad Makela, who studied and spent his early years as a musician in the US, is now based in Vancouver, Canada. He is among the many who performed at The Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club in that West Coast city. Like a few of them, he recorded for the Cellar Live label, which was established to document the music played at the club. This quartet album, recorded in May 2004 and first released in May 2005, is now seeing US ...

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Album Review

Chad Makela Quartet: Flicker

by Nic Jones
May 28, 2006

If a cross between the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker and the Ornette Coleman Quartet with Don Cherry had ever been fashioned, it might have sounded something like Flicker. However, such idle conjecture distracts from the fact that this is a group with its own identity, and the fact that six of the seven tracks here run to over eight minutes, three of them topping the ten minute mark, does not make for musical tedium simply because this band ...