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Album Review

Jason Stein Quartet: The Story This Time

Read "The Story This Time" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
December 21, 2011

The two horns, bass and drums quartet is becoming a commonplace grouping even though it hasn't quite reached the saturation point of the piano-bass-drums trio. A consequence of this instrumentation is the obvious decline in novelty value and, indeed, the ability to catch the ear, but this is a leader and group only too aware of that, which explains why this is such a fresh body of music. Jason Stein also plays the bass clarinet exclusively, which in a sense ...

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Jason Stein: In Exchange for a Process

Read "In Exchange for a Process" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 17, 2009

Non capita tutti i giorni di imbattersi in un'incisione di solo clarinetto basso, strumento che siamo abituati ad acoltare in genere in formazioni più allargate. Sentirlo così, messo a nudo e spogliato del suo contorno, dà una sensazione inconsueta. Ma il giovane Jason Stein (classe '76) sa già il fatto suo, forte dell'esperienza nell'ambito della nuova scena jazz di Chicago (ha fatto parte dell'ensamble post-free Bridge 61) approccia questo lavoro in solitario con la grinta e la fantasia necessarie per ...

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Got Bass Clarinet? Jason Stein Does

by Mark Corroto
November 17, 2009

In the short history of jazz--only about 110 years--the bass clarinet has had an even shorter existence. Students of Charles Darwin's evolutionary studies might point towards the adaption of the instrument into the new jazz of the 1960s; or perhaps the branch of evolution studies called biogeography might explain that fertile locations spawn growth in the use of certain instruments. Nonetheless, the bass clarinet has only appeared in fits-and-starts throughout the jazz story. If the progenitor was Eric Dolphy, his ...

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Jason Stein: A Calculus of Loss

Read "A Calculus of Loss" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 5, 2008

Se si eccettua “That’s Not a Closet“, brano strutturato, riconoscibile, identificabile con alcuni canonici estetici della musica afroamericana, A Calculus of Loss si può considerare una sorta di work in progress su sculture sonore. Perché le improvvisazioni del trio sono sfuggenti, deformate e deformabili, in perpetua ed istantanea evoluzione. Sono sufficienti un fremito percussivo, una vibrazione d’ancia, un inflessione del violoncello per alterare la percezione di una musica che sembra assorbire energia dallo spazio circostante e dare risalto ai vuoti, ...