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Tom Abbs: Lost & Found
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is possible to respond to Tom Abbs & Frequency Response's Lost & Found with eyes wide shut, ears completely unlocked and a body ready to leap up and dance to some of its eighteen randomly arranged musical fragments. There is a cerebral angle here, most likely deliberate on the part of the artist. It has ...
Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Lost + Found
by Glenn Astarita
Frequency Response's third outing is a study in diversity via a stylistic group sound that touches upon many genres. Cellist/tubaist Tom Abbs is the director of operations throughout a program that integrates chamber jazz, free jazz, and noise-shaping activities amid many other shades of Western song forms. The group abides by a structured approach ...
Natural/Cultural Forces
By Warren Smith
Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2008
Track listing: Pyramid; American Flamingo; Taurus at Pasture; Epicenter; Royal Drums of Duke's Court; El Yunque.
Warren Smith: Natural/Cultural Forces
by John Sharpe
How best to impart compositional intent to a band? Musical notation, graphical diagrams, singing or playing parts or discussing motives and visions? Veteran percussionist Warren Smith has experienced the whole gamut over his 74 years, with everyone from Charles Mingus, Muhal Richard Abrams, Bill Dixon, Aretha Franklin and Van Morrison to contemporary classical composer Harry Partch. ...
Natural/Cultural Forces
By Warren Smith
Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2007
Track listing: Pyramid; American Flamingo; Taurus at Pasture; Epicenter; Royal Drums of Duke's Court; El Yunque.
Sun Set
Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2007
Track listing: Fredology (1-2-3-4); Sun Set; The Blue Devils And The Hly Ghost; Elevated; Elements One And Two; Three For All; Freebop Now!; Sustain Me; Which Sounds Bring Which? Spirit; Donuts; Sun Shine; Number Six.
Warren Smith: Natural/Cultural Forces
by Greg Camphire
Multi-talented percussionist Warren Smith is one of the most versatile and inventive musicians to ever emerge from the fertile New York-based scene, though he may lack the name recognition of some of his more famous peers and collaborators, including Max Roach's all-star M'Boom ensemble, Gil Evans, Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton. Natural/Cultural Forces, which encompasses a ...
Paul Steinbeck: Sun Set
by Chris May
New York bassist Paul Steinbeck's third album for Engine Studios is an infectious, good-foot gumbo of retro and contemporary styles. Gospel, classic R&B, hip hop and New Orleans marching band music provide the grooves and rhythms, which sit alongside collective improvisations straddling New Orleans' Preservation Hall and today's free music. It inhabits similar territory to trumpeter ...
