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Eric Siereveld's Organic Quintet: Sweet William

by Jack Bowers
On their second recording together, trumpeter Eric Siereveld and his New York-based Organic Quintet are more a sextet most of the way, as guest trombonist Steve Davis lends a master hand (two, actually) on six of the album's eight numbers. The term organic" springs from the fact that one of the ensemble's anchors is organist Steve Snyder, and the pleasurable studio date is in part a family affair as Steve Davis' son, Tony Davis, is the group's ...
Continue ReadingEric Siereveld: Walk The Walk

by Jack Bowers
The organic" in trumpeter Eric Siereveld's Organic Quintet doesn't mean the group has no artificial ingredients or synthetic preservatives; rather, it denotes the fact that the quintet's modus operandi rests in some measure on the well-defined tone colors produced by Steve Snyder's indispensable Hammon B3 organ. The word indispensable" is used because it is Siereveld's purpose to keep one eye securely on the present while peering with the other toward the history-making tradition of jazz-organ groups led by such giants ...
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