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Kelly Rossum: Line

Read "Line" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Those listeners who know Kelly Rossum only as the self-styled “electrumpet" virtuoso from Electropolis (Innova, 2006), by the Minneapolis group of the same name, will be surprised by Line. In contrast to Electropolis' deep-groove, sci-fi jazz, Rossum's band here offers an entirely acoustic combination of the sounds of those marvelous, piano-less “New Thing" ...

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Renovation

Label: 612 Sides
Released: 2004
Track listing: Cheap Cigars, Lead Soldiers, Fly Away, Bugpowder, Disposable Assets, Life on Mars, Little Wing, Hennepin Bridge, Taxi Funeral Waltz, Glass Wheel, The Two of Us, Francis Loop

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Kelly Rossum: Renovation

Read "Renovation" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Renovation, Minneapolis-based trumpeter Kelly Rossum's second recording as a leader, opens with a Rossum original, “Cheap Cigars," coming to life on a Fender Rhodes chime, repeated like church bells, as an introduction to the leader's muted horn, a sound of yearning in front of the sharp punctuation of a shuffling rhythm. Miles Davis' sound, of the ...

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Party's Over/Begun

Label: Yebo Productions
Released: 2002
Track listing: Scatterlogic, The Witch, Little Mary, Toxic Fruit, Sand Dunes, Through the Fog, Lowlands, Majestic Monarch of the Air, a.m. quiet, Rush Hour

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Kelly Rossum: Party's Over/Begun

Read "Party's Over/Begun" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Trumpeter Kelly Rossum and the quintet open up Party's Over/Begun relaxed and loose-jointed on bass man Michael O'Brian's "Scatterlogic", a rollicking straight ahead quintet workout. Stretched (like a rubberband) trumpet lines, rhythm rolling free and easy. Sounds like the band tried and tried to record it just right, then gave up and said, "What the hell; ...


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