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Pete Carney: Orange Alert
by Paul Olson
Chicago saxophonist Pete Carney tackles some weighty subject matter--9/11 and its aftermath in Iraq, contemporary American life and its constant background of fear and clamor--on Orange Alert. On the tune Night Vision Carney layers multitracked tenors over shimmering electric piano and a hypnotic, trebley cymbal loop, and the result's an edgy, melancholy gem of acid jazz.That's all the good news.Carney's album is very much a studio creation, urban and contemporary--self-consciously so. Carney's saxophones and flute, Jim ...
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