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Dom Minasi: Time Will Tell
by C. Michael Bailey
Time Will Tell is the third release from guitarist Dom Minasi on his CDM Records label. On the other two recent discs ( Takin' the Duke Out and Goin' Out Again ), Minasi has taken great glee in allowing his brutally unique approach on the guitar to step front and center. Mr. Minasi has recast standards ...
Dom Minasi: Time Will Tell
by AAJ Staff
New York guitarist Dom Minasi inaugurated his CDM label in 2001 with the live record Takin' Out The Duke, a restless outburst of unbridled expressionism. It was a far cry from his two mid-'70s Blue Note records, which tread familiar ground and took smaller chances. He shook things loose again with Goin' Out Again, a similarly ...
Goin' Out Again
By Dom Minasi
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2002
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; All Blues; Dumpie; As the Spirit Moves; On Green Dolphin Street; Trane's Lament; The Day After Next; Well You Needn't
Dom Minasi Trio: Goin' Out Again
by Mark F. Turner
The Dom Minasi Trio continues their music quest on their latest effort Goin' Out Again. One who will not be confined to stereotypical confines; Minasi and his artistic crew produce jazz that's hard to classify. Their previous effort, Takin' the Duke Out paid heartfelt and eccentric homage to the great Duke Ellington, by taking a few ...
Dom Minasi: Takin' the Duke Out
by AAJ Staff
Though guitarist Dom Minasi was born on the same day as the great Wes Montgomery, the resemblance stops there. Minasi refuses to abide by bop's conventions of harmony, rhythm, or melody--instead, he breaks music down into its smallest parts and reassembles them in a rough, angular collage of sound. Fragments of melody, repeated trills, and leaping ...
Dom Minasi: Takin' The Duke Out
by Mark F. Turner
What's the best way to artistically interpret the musical creations of former jazz masters? Many current day artists have given musical tributes which have resulted in merely carbon remakes that reside safely in the boundaries of the original intents. Purists would claim that sacred music canons should not be tampered with frivolously; while experimentalists ...
The Dom Minasi Trio: Takin' The Duke Out
by C. Michael Bailey
A postmodern treatment of Ellington.If the central premise of postmodern deconstructionism can be defined that all literary (and other) criticism is entirely subjective- that all texts are relative to one's personal interpretation and experience, then Takin' the Duke Out is a postmodern monument. In this case, renowned free jazz guitarist Dom Minasi takes the ...
Takin' The Duke Out
By Dom Minasi
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2001
Track listing: Satin Doll; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good; Take the A Train; Solitude; It Don't Mean a thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Total Time: 53:44).
Dom Minasi: Takin' The Duke Out
by C. Michael Bailey
A Postmodern treatment of Ellington. If the central premise Postmodern Deconstructionism can be defined that all literary (and other) criticism is entirely subjective-- that all texts are relative to one's personal interpretation and experience, then Takin' the Duke Out is a Postmodern monument. In this case, renowned free jazz guitarist Dom Minasi ...
