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Sean Conly / Michael Attias: Think Shadow

Read "Think Shadow" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 4, 2012

This is an intimate meeting between old friends. Bassist Sean Conlyand Michäel Attias who collaborated before on Conly's Re: Action (Clean Feed, 2012) and on Attias' recent Spun Tree (Clean Feed, 2012). But this recording features both musicians who work now as the Think Shadow duo. Here, they improvise on the spot, creating melody, rhythm, and harmony, searching for a mutual language. The fifteen duets are subdued and restrained. Conly and Attias leave enough space for each ...

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Sean Conly: Re:Action

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 29, 2009

Il brano iniziale, il celeberrimo “Gazzelloni" di Eric Dolphy, è l'unico non originale degli undici presenti ma fornisce chiare indicazioni su quale sarà il climax dell'intero album. Che sarà caratterizzato da musica rigorosa, che nulla concede allo spettacolo, si direbbe in termini calcistici, ma va subito al sodo, sfrondando leziosità e numeri da circo. Interprete di Re:Action, l'album in questione, un quartetto anomalo, ritmica e doppio sax, formato da due musicisti ormai affermati, Tony Malaby e Pheeroan Aklaff, e due ...

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Sean Conly: Re:Action

Read "Re:Action" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
December 21, 2008

Bassist Sean Conly is an extraordinarily busy player, perhaps somewhat of a yeoman--he's worked with figures as diverse in approach as the violinists Sam Bardfeld and Regina Carter. But if he has a particular mettle, it might just be in the unruly, driving and highly plastic music of this ensemble. Conly, saxists Michael Attias and Tony Malaby and drummer Pheeroan akLaff take on on a program of ten originals and a cover of Eric Dolphy's “Gazzelloni." There ...