Home » Articoli » Album Review » Outhead: Send this Sound to the King

Outhead: Send this Sound to the King

By

View read count
Outhead: Send this Sound to the King
Un ensemble senz'altro effervescente, vitale, questo quartetto con doppio sax attivo nella Bay Area di San Francisco le cui voci-guida sono Alex Weiss e Charlie Gurke, che oltre tutto si dividono equamente la paternità dei brani presenti nel disco: tre a testa (il settimo, "A Made Truth," peraltro il più debole del lotto, si deve al batterista Dillon Westbrook).

Nulla di particolarmente nuovo sotto il sole, per carità, ma comunque un jazz fresco e brillante, un post-bop aggiornato e piuttosto tirato il cui ascolto gratifica magari più l'orecchio che il cervello, senza in ogni caso svilire mai neppure quest'ultimo. Il brano più originale e gustoso risulta a conti fatti l'ultimo "Uncle Ho," di Gurke (titolo volutamente post-zappiano?), con voci e strumenti a rincorrersi in una sorta di anomalo canone multiforme.

Track Listing

Ode to John Denver or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Death; The Chairman; The Palimpsest; Glass Houses & Gift Horses; A Made Truth; Trotsky; Uncle Ho.

Personnel

Alex Weiss: sax alto e tenore, voce; Charlie Gurke: sax baritono; Rob Woodcock: contrabbasso; Dillon Westbrook: batteria; Pete Galub: chitarra, voce; Sarah Horacek, Jen Zebulon, Eunjin Park, Kristin Sharkey: voce.

Album information

Title: Send this Sound to the King | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Self Produced



Tags

Comments

About Outhead

Articles | Concerts | Albums | Photos | Similar

PREVIOUS / NEXT




Support All About Jazz

Get the Jazz Near You newsletter All About Jazz has been a pillar of jazz since 1995, championing it as an art form and, more importantly, supporting the musicians who make it. Our enduring commitment has made "AAJ" one of the most culturally important websites of its kind, read by hundreds of thousands of fans, musicians and industry figures every month.

Go Ad Free!

To maintain our platform while developing new means to foster jazz discovery and connectivity, we need your help. You can become a sustaining member for as little as $20 and in return, we'll immediately hide those pesky ads plus provide access to future articles for a full year. This winning combination vastly improves your AAJ experience and allow us to vigorously build on the pioneering work we first started in 1995. So enjoy an ad-free AAJ experience and help us remain a positive beacon for jazz by making a donation today.

More

Tramonto
John Taylor
Ki
Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii
Duality Pt: 02
Dom Franks' Strayhorn
The Sound of Raspberry
Tatsuya Yoshida / Martín Escalante

Popular

Old Home/New Home
The Brian Martin Big Band
My Ideal
Sam Dillon
Ecliptic
Shifa شفاء - Rachel Musson, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders
Lado B Brazilian Project 2
Catina DeLuna & Otmaro Ruíz

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.