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Dom Minasi: Quick Response
by Nenad Georgievski
Quick Response is Dom Minasi's latest effort since last year's Time Will Tell, also on CDM Records. Supported by a group of musicians who are no strangers to playing both classic hard bop and avant stuff, Minasi is delivering an album that in a way dwells both in classic and avant-garde territories. The ...
Dom Minasi: Quick Response
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Guitar firebrand Dom Minasi, one of jazz's most enduring iconoclasts, has assembled a quartet of kindred spirits to help him realize his latest set of outside-the-box concepts on Quick Response. Since Minasi has released this on his own label, any potential conflicts concerning the quality, direction and style of the music contained therein have been forestalled. ...
Time Will Tell
By Dom Minasi
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2004
Track listing: Witch Hunt; Time Will Tell; DMP; My Soul Cries Out; Be Op Be Op Ah; John; Waltz for Eric; "Round Midnight.
Dom Minasi: Quick Response
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Dom Minasi's Quick Response shines up the organ combo concept and bends it into odd angles, then darts off interesting new trajectories.Minasi released two albums on Blue Note Records in the seventies before he got his fill of the music business and took a quarter century off from high profile aspirations. He came ...
Dom Minasi: Quick Response
by Jochem van Dijk
Dom Minasi Quick Response CDM Records 2004 Wow. Dom Minasi, the guitar meister famous (amongst others) for enthusiastically ripping to shreds various Duke tunes, made a straight-ahead record. With a Hammond B-3, no less. Or didn't he? Well, yes and no. Yes, on the ...
Dom Minasi: Quick Response
by Jim Santella
From jazz's modern mainstream comes “Quick Response," with its soulful organ groove and hip melodic lines. Guitarist Dom Minasi prefers that his title track move fast and furious; and he backs up that wish with positive results. The leader's fiery guitar breaks loose with an articulate fusillade that numbs the senses. A native New ...
Dom Minasi's DDT+2: Time Will Tell
by John Kelman
Dom Minasi had a brief relationship with Blue Note Records in the mid-‘70s, when he released two recordings and then, disillusioned by the changes in label direction, walked away from recording for nearly twenty-five years. While he continued to play in the intervening years, honing a style that seems to combine a warm tone and slightly ...
Dom Minasi: Time Will Tell
by Jim Santella
The modern mainstream is served righteously with Dom Minasi’s latest album, which features his chamber jazz quartet interpreting six originals and two integral standards. Combining elements of free jazz with straight-ahead luxury, the quartet sparkles with its melding of fresh, new ideas and familiar melodies. Minasi writes from a straight-ahead jazz experience. That’s ...
Dom Minasi: A Matter of Time
by Eric J. Iannelli
When Dom Minasi steps away from his intense schedule of composing, writing, teaching, recording and performing and pauses long enough to talk -- and even then the pace doesn't slow: the guitarist's sentences arrive in a relentless, stream-of-conscious barrage, full of names, anecdotes and ideas -- he seems to dwell on two words above all others: ...
Dom Minasi: Time Will Tell
by Franz A. Matzner
Intersecting spirals, overlapping glissandi, free form excursions accelerating to abrupt halts. Reversals. Short melodic phrases rupturing into florid runs. The cello's persistent, mournful grace bound to the guitar's sharper, interpolating voice, both riding on, then blending with the bass's firmer, deeper resonance, gliding within and without the drums' tight pulse and rhythmic report, the runnels and ...
