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Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion

Read "Sandhills Reunion" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 10, 2005

Various band members contribute compositional frameworks as a backdrop of sorts for Rinde Eckert's lyricism and recitations on this idyllically focused jazz work. And it's drummer Jerry Granelli's brainchild as he lays down the rhythms for a potpourri of acoustic-electric tunes structured upon medium-tempo rhythms and jazzy dreamscapes. Eckert's likeable recitals are cleanly delivered ...

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Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion

Read "Sandhills Reunion" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 2, 2005

In these days of rap-informed everything , the combination of spoken word and jazz is nothing new. Mike Ladd's Negrophilia - The Album (Thirsty Ear, '05), for example, seamlessly blends poetry with electronica-inflected free ideas. But rap has a certain cadence that differs from the less direct rhythms associated with the spoken word of, say, the ...

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