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The Respect Sextet
In January 2005, Respect released Respect In You, a free-wheeling live recording featuring guest bassist Matt Clohesy. The album received rave reviews from jazz magazines including Cadence, ParisTransatlantic, Exclaim! and Coda, and was listed in several as one of 2005's ten best records. "Forget about the wan, self-conscious eclecticism that's the bane of the current jazz scene," wrote critic Nate Dorward, "this is the real deal, burning hard and bright."
Their newest album, Sirius Respect, (Mode/Avant, 2009), brings together the music of Sun Ra and Karlheinz Stockhausen and views them through Respect-colored glasses. In Respect's inimitable style, pieces ranging from Stockhausen's "Tierkreis" (inspired by the Zodiac) to Sun Ra's "Saturn" are juxtaposed, layered, deconstructed and re-assembled.
The Respect Sextet, through its eclecticism, its devotion to improvisation, its predilection towards swing, and its use of toys and "little instruments," has drawn comparisons both to New Dutch Swing and the AACM.
Many dialectics are at work (and play) in Respect's music, in which the serious, heady, and intellectual mingle with the light, comic, and absurd, where compositions alternate with improvisations, and where tight ensemble work coexists with loose, empathic interplay.
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The Respect Sextet at Le Poisson Rouge
by Jason Crane
The Respect Sextet Le Poisson Rouge New York City May 24, 2009
After nearly a decade together, the members of The Respect Sextet have created an environment of trust and musical courage that allows them to explore the many facets of improvised music. They displayed this fearlessness--and a playful love of experimentation--to a standing-room-only crowd at Le Poisson Rouge in New York's Greenwich Village on May 24.
The Respect Sextet consists of ...
read moreThe Respect Sextet: The Full Respect
by Eric J. Iannelli
While gigging in and around Rochester, New York, the Respect Sextet circulated a demo CD entitled Respectacle. This portmanteau, as I'm fairly sure it was intended, conjures immediate associations with other words: respect, spectacle and receptacle. All three are appropriate. The players in this six-piece delight in paying homage to every one of their musical influences and enjoy drawing attention to themselves... and their debut full-length, The Full Respect , is a bag about as mixed as they come.
read moreThe Respect Sextet returns to Le Poisson Rouge on 8/17, celebrates new album!
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Josh Rutner
THE RESPECT SEXTET RETURNS TO LE POISSON ROUGE ON TUES, AUGUST 17, 2010 AT 10:00PM TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THEIR NEWEST, DIGITAL-ONLY RECORDING, “FARCICAL BUILT FOR SIX" Toby Twining with Eric Brenner to open NEW YORK, August 4, 2010—The Respect Sextet will perform at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 to celebrate the release of their newest, digital-only recording, Farcical Built For Six. Cantaloupe recording artists Toby Twining and Eric Brenner will open the show, performing a ...
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The Respect Sextet Returns to le Poisson Rouge in NYC on Tues, January 12, 2010 at 10:00PM with Ethan Iverson (of the Bad Plus) Opening on Solo Piano
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Michael Ricci
After nearly a decade together, the members of The Respect Sextet have created an environment of trust and musical courage that allows them to explore the many facets of improvised music. They displayed this fearlessness--and a playful love of experimentation--to a standing-room-only crowd at Le Poisson Rouge. So said All About Jazz columnist Jason Crane about The Respect Sextet's previous performance at Le Poission Rouge in late May, when the band celebrated the release of their newest recording, on Mode ...
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The Jazz Session #64: The Respect Sextet
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All About Jazz
Listen Members of the Respect Sextet discuss their new album, Sirius Respect (Mode, 2009), where they explore the music of composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Sun Ra. Formed nearly a decade ago at the Eastman School of Music, the Respect Sextet combines freewheeling improvisation with driving rhythms and a sense of humor. The members of the band have wide-ranging musical tastes and a fearlessly collaborative aesthetic, which leads to one-of-a-kind performances. In this interview, the members of Respect talk about the ...
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"This is world-class American jazz at its finest and freest. It's pure truth. Respect the truth."
"...the sense of adventurousness that pervades Respect's ecstatic improvisations won't be found in standard Eastman curriculum."
"...group veers from deep rhythmic workouts to open drones and hilarious vaudeville." --City Newspaper
"...when the band concluded, the entire street erupted. It was a triumphant homecoming for this terrific band..." --allaboutjazz.com
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