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Rich Halley Quartet featuring Bobby Bradford: Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival
By Track review of "Grey Stones/Shards of Sky"Halley leads a changeable game plan, with the musicians varying the pitch, altering tempos, and morphing grooves into semi-structured choruses. A major highlight is the fifteen-minute "Grey Stones/Shards of Sky," where the quartet executes a torrent of passionate exchanges to form a hugely entertaining panorama.
Bradford's concise lines initiate impressions of an avant-garde military parade atop drummer Carson Hailey's precision-oriented snare fills. The frontline also tosses in melodic intervals, laced with a few classical type segments, while Hailey's inventive solo offers an extension of the principal pulse and generates a new perspective to a suite-like composition.
Vibrant and loaded with unanticipated surprises, Halley's broad jazz vernacular and enviable chops help consummate a diverse program that yields several knockout blows.
Personnel
Rich Halley
saxophone, tenorRich Halley: tenor saxophone; Bobby Bradford: cornet; Clyde Reed: bass; Carson Halley: drums.
Album information
Title: Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival | Year Released: 2011 | Record Label: Pine Eagle Records
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