Rob Price
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Album Review
- At Sunset by Franz A. Matzner
- I Really Do Not See The Signal by Michael Caratti
February 03, 2005
John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet & Rob Price's Group at the Slought...
"I'd heard good things about Price's previous work but this disc is my first encounter with his music. He's not the most ostentatious player, which tends to serve his music well. It also gives plenty of room to his high energy band, for Eskelin's always-inventive expressions and the bustling vigor of Dunn and Black, both supple and muscular. Price, to put it somewhat simply, rocks out quite a bit, with a heavy use of distortion and a predilection for walls of sound and repeating licks. He's got more in his bag, though, and he's also a canny enough player for this not to overwhelm the music—indeed, he uses the distorted tones resourcefully to generate lots of texture ("Dashiell Hammett & Barbara Pym") and some nice fractured rhythms ("Girasol" and the bouncing "Modern Mongoose")
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Night Vision
From: At SunsetBy Rob Price
Girasol
From: I Really Do Not See The SignalBy Rob Price