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Zach Green: Chatterbox
ByGreen's first-class arranging skills are perhaps most visible on the album's lone "standard," Paul McCartney and John Lennon's tasteful "Eleanor Rigby," popularized by the Beatles and imparted with warmth and intelligence by Green's talented ensemble. As to Green's five compositions, they are splendid, with the flag-waving "Chatterbox" and groovy, mid-tempo "Chill Pill" especially engaging. "Spring in Ohio" is lovely, as are "Meandering" and "Self Care," showing Green's gift for melody, harmony and shading, but lacking the intensity that animates and amplifies "Chatterbox" or "Chill Pill"although "Spring in Ohio" accelerates midstream for plucky solos by pianist Sterling Cozza and trombonist Colin Babcock.
Speaking of solos, they are admirable throughout, as Cozza (electric piano on "Meandering" and "Chill Pill") and Babcock (muted on "Chill Pill") set the bar high for trumpeter Eli Goldstein (flugelhorn on "Self Care"), bassist Dan Finn's ("Meandering") and drummer Gary Kerkezou's ("Chill Pill"). It is a challenge that everyone eagerly accepts. Chatterbox is one of those unforeseen but no less impressive albums that seem to turn up now and then from next to nowhere. In the realm of pleasant surprises, mark this one specialmarred only by its skimpy thirty-six-minute playing time.
Track Listing
Spring In Ohio; Chatterbox; Meandering; Eleanor Rigby; Self Care; Chill Pill.
Personnel
Zach Green
composer / conductorEli Goldstein
trumpetM. Alex Ramirez
saxophone, altoColin Babcock
tromboneSterling Cozza
pianoDan Finn
bassGary Kerkezou
drumsAlbum information
Title: Chatterbox | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Green Machine Music
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