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MTKJ Quartet

MTKJ Quartet: Day of the Race

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2007

Una piacevole sorpresa: è la prima impressione che desta il quartetto guidato dal sassofonista Jason Mears e dal trombettista Kris Tiner. Il lavoro d'insieme - questa è la loro seconda incisione - sembra dare i suoi frutti e la musica ne beneficia in termini di precisione esecutiva, oltre che per la riuscita integrazione di stilemi improvvisativi ...

Day of the Race

By MTKJ Quartet

Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Swim Swim Swim, Eat Eat Eat; Sweet Nut Stomp; Fewest Heartbeats; Attack of the Eye People; Not Finding Anything/Beast Wheel's Revenge; Golianation; I Hate Your Teapot.

MTKJ Quartet: Day of the Race

by Rex Butters
April 29, 2006

Even with commitments across the West Coast musical spectrum, the members of MTKJ managed to reunite for this, their second recording for Vinny Golia's Nine Winds label and fourth overall. Day of the Race delivers an exciting and fresh collection of performances that show a great band getting better. Their balance of subtlety and pyrotechnics centers ...

Making Room For Spaces

By MTKJ Quartet

Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Like That She's Gone; And So It Goes...; Function; Fish Face; Nuts and Gum, Together At Last; Mearsyshmearsy.

Music From the 2003 West Coast Tour

By MTKJ Quartet

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: the Hooka Song/Points of Focus; Mearsyshmearsy; Who Knows the Wicker Man?/And Skip To; Points of Focus/Fish Face/Inspecktion; Hooka Song.

MTKJ Quartet: Making Room for Spaces

by Rex Butters
September 7, 2004

This LA-based quartet's first collection on Vinny Golia's Nine Winds Label presents an assured and adventurous group equally unafraid of free flight and swing. Jason Mears on reeds and Kris Tiner on trumpets blow an exciting and informed front line over the taut Paul Kikuchi/Ivan Johnson rhythm section. A post bop arrangement takes “Like ...

MTKJ Quartet: Music From the 2003 West Coast Tour

by Rex Butters
March 8, 2004

The Mears/Tiner/Kikuchi/Johnson Quartet gathers four of LA’s best young improvisers to create fiery compositions and improvisations. While invoking Ornette or Braxton in passing, the Quartet delights in creating new sounds with a classic configuration. Since the magic of free improv lies in spontaneity, live recordings can capture the spark more vividly than studios works. With several ...