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News: Performance / Tour

Moppa Elliott Jazz History Scrambled, with Love and Respect

August 15, 2009

Theres a bustling, ostentatious impiety in the music of Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, its a jazz quartet with a diligent grasp of history but an anarchic take on convention. At Zebulon in Brooklyn late on Thursday night, the group riffled through jazz idioms with hammy geniality, like an ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues

Read "I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 28, 2009

The saxophone and drum duo has long been an established jazz tradition, with Interstellar Space (Impulse!, 1965), John Coltrane's legendary duet album with Rashied Ali, widely considered the format's archetype. Containing a single 47-and-a-half minute improvisation, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues is tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon and drummer Mike Pride's bold contribution to the ...

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Making Avant-Garde Jazz in a Mostly Killing Climate

February 17, 2009

The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn. But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label, Hot Cup. Elliott, 30, a bassist/composer born in Factoryville, says, “Look, we're ...

Album

Shamokin!!!

By Moppa Elliott

Label: Hot Cup Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Handsome Eddy - 5:51; 2. The Hop Bottom Hop - 8:28; 3. Shamokin - 3:51; 4. Dunkelbergers - 7:49; 5. Factoryville - 4:51; 6. Lover - 4:34; 7. Andover - 3:51; 8. Evans City - 6:41; 9. Baden - 6:38; 10. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie/Paparelli) - 21:32. Tutte le composizioni sono di Moppa Elliott.

Article: Album Review

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Shamokin!!!

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 28, 2008

Immaginate. Immaginate di essere seduti in platea al Birdland o al Cafè Bohemia. Metà anni Cinquanta. Aria viziata, notte fredda e davanti a voi un tumbler con ghiaccio e whisky. Al tavolino accanto due adescatrici provocanti e succinte, dal cicaleccio sguaiato e irritante. Sul palco Art Blakey e i Jazz Messengers nella loro primissima incarnazione, con ...