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Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn

by Ian Patterson
July 7, 2009

It's a minute and forty seconds before Sebastiaan Cornelissen's drums ease into the frame on U-Turn. Although he has a lot to say he's clearly not in a rush; this second solo effort has been seven years coming and has taken four years to put together. The fourteen pieces, which could almost be seen as a continuous suite given their stylistic uniformity, are less about his playing and more about his writing. With the aid of no fewer that seventeen ...

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Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn

Read "U-Turn" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
June 1, 2009

If there's one weakness in recent fusion releases, it's that they are sometimes too formulaic, with overcooked tempos and melodies that have hardly deviated since the sounds of groundbreaking progenitors such as The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth. Where's the creativity and new identity? Well one place it can be heard is in Dutch drummer and composer Sebastiaan Cornelissen's U-Turn. With duties as a musician and teacher dividing his time between the UK and native Holland, Cornelissen ...