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Matt Jorgensen + 451: Quiet Silence

Read "Quiet Silence" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
August 14, 2002

This is drummer Matt Jorgensen's second album for Seattle's Origin label - - the first The Road Begins Here was released last year. Again working in a quintet format, with Phil Sparks and Marc Seales as holdovers from the initial outing, Jorgensen addresses a set of original compositions along with a mixed set of works running from pieces by John Coltrane to Burt Bacharach. The horn players for this session are altoist Mark Taylor and tenor man Rob Davis both ...

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Matt Jorgensen +451: The Road Begins Here

by Ben Ohmart
September 1, 2001

Beautiful cd. 7 tracks and 54 minutes of smooth jazz, from adapted classics to noteworthy originals.Matt Jorgensen, Rob Davis, Phil Sparks, Marc Seales: these are the champions of a combo so tight, you'd swear you hear more in these instrumental songs than just these few people. The swinging nightlife sound of 'Afterglow,' busy with Davis sax and Jorgensen drums, is somethin' else. Burns like lamplight oil on a street far in the past; warms; glows.What wasn't ...