Jazz Articles about Pete Carney

Pete Carney: Orange Alert

by Paul Olson
March 18, 2005

Chicago saxophonist Pete Carney tackles some weighty subject matter--9/11 and its aftermath in Iraq, contemporary American life and its constant background of fear and clamor--on Orange Alert. On the tune “Night Vision Carney layers multitracked tenors over shimmering electric piano and a hypnotic, trebley cymbal loop, and the result's an edgy, melancholy gem of acid jazz.That's all the good news.Carney's album is very much a studio creation, urban and contemporary--self-consciously so. Carney's saxophones and flute, Jim ...