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Outside to Play

Label: Acoustic Recording
Released: 2004
Track listing: Up and Down; Song for the Sons; Arise; Durruti; Swept Away; Whatfore Art Thou?; Misteriovum; Outside to Play

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Article: Album Review

Josh Irving Quartet: Outside to Play

Read "Outside to Play" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
September 6, 2004

Stylistically amorphous, the Josh Irving Quartet's freshman effort, Outside to Play, suffers from an inability to establish a consistent voice, which ultimately distracts from the musicians' talents. Vacillating between bop, hard bop, and more contemporary directions, the four musicians clearly possess a comprehensive--albeit studied--background in jazz forms, and the group's original tunes reveal ...