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Scot Ray Quintet: Active Vapor Recovery
by AAJ Staff
While unbridled intensity may have entered the jazz arena during the avant-garde explosions of the '60s, decades still remained before it would be channeled into fifty alternative outlets. One of those, the punk movement of the late '80s and early '90s, brought a number of “rock" listeners across the already-thin boundary into energy music, fueling a whole new generation of performers both inside the “downtown" scene and across the country.
Guitarist Nels Cline has frequently been associated with ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
In your face. That's how the Scot Ray Quintete's Active Vapor Recovery starts out on "Three Quarks." It has to do with attitude and Ray's axe: the trombone, an inherently in-your-face instrument. Ditto for the electric violin (Jeff Gauthier) and the electric guitar in the hands of Nels Cline. Wailing guitar chops and searing violin, combined with the forthright brass attack of the trombone.
The disc goes full-throttle for the most part, with some solid grooves matched with accessibility. Some ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
