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About Flipside

Album Review

New York City based “Flipside” is a multinational quartet featuring New Zealanders Matt Penman (bass), Greg Tuohey (guitar), Irish drummer Darren Beckett and French saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh. “Flipside” is about strong grooves, sensitive group interplay and adequate breathing room for the soloists as in Matt Penman’s composition, “The Magic Beans”. Here, Jerome Sabbagh leads the charge with his fluent, breezy Soprano Sax phrasing and serves as the traffic cop through meticulously developed thematic statements. Greg Tuohey’s warm, animated guitar choruses ...

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Album Review

Flipside: Flipside

Read "Flipside" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 1, 1998

Fluid Dynamics. One of the nice things about jazz is how different performance styles mingle with one another at their edges. This mingling can take two forms: innovation and playing (stylistically) in all directions. An example of the first is Lester Young. The way he paid his bills was by playing big band swing in the 30s and 40s. But even while he was playing in a big band setting, his style possessed both Bebop and Cool characteristics (accepting that ...