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Marc Riordan Quartet: Binoculars

by Mark Corroto
February 3, 2013

Question: when is a pianist-led recording also a drummer's record? That query, as it relates to pianist Marc Riordan's Binoculars, is not poised as a Zen koan, because there is an answer.The correct response: when the pianist is a drummer.Riordan, an up-and-coming percussionist in the Chicago music scene, can be heard in bands led by bassist Jason Ajemian, saxophonist Aram Shelton and cornetist Josh Berman, and the prog/punk band Wishgift. In the improvising unit Tres Hongos, ...