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Tin Fish Tango

Label: Immersion Records & Media
Released: 2011
Track listing: Tin Fish Tango; Bright Side; Huff-A-Round; No Spill, Spew!; Stollin' With Sidney; Life Lite; Big Bhang Theory; Pelican Down; The Kroop; Love's Wildest Talent; Jugs; Lost to the Vapors; Diddlin.'

Article: Album Review

Plunge: Tin Fish Tango

Read "Tin Fish Tango" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Contrabbasso, trombone, sassofono, con l'aggiunta in qualche brano del sousaphone, ossia come riprodurre in versione ridotta una tipica marchin' band di New Orleans, visto che proprio dalla storica città della Louisiana provengono i protagonisti di Tin Fish Tango. Mark McGrain, trombonista e autore di tutti i brani presenti, pesca a piene mani nella tradizione della città ...

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News: Recording

Plunge Brings Chamber Jazz to a Good Place in "Tin Fish Tango"

Plunge Brings Chamber Jazz to a Good Place in "Tin Fish Tango"

New Orleans is a trombone town. Aside from Kid Ory and the tailgate players. Today for example you have Delfeayo Marsalis, Jeff Albert and . . . Mark McGrain. It is with the latter of the three that we concern ourselves today. He is an integral member of the trio Plunge, the others being James Singleton ...

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Article: Album Review

Plunge: Tin Fish Tango

Read "Tin Fish Tango" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Plunge is a drummer-less trio, featuring leader/trombonist Mark McGrain teamed with bassist James Singleton. The “no drums" approach allows flexibility in the music's time element, and a fluidity of the flow of notes, while horns and bass make room for space as a major component of the sound.The slippery tango of the title track ...

Article: Album Review

Plunge: Dancing on Thin Ice

Read "Dancing on Thin Ice" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Plunge è costituito da tre jazzisti di New Orleans di età compresa fra i trenta e i quarant'anni. L'aspetto più pregevole di Dancing on Thin Ice, seconda fatica discografica del trio registrata nell'aprile 2009, è la concezione compositiva: tutti i brani, a firma del trombonista, presentano una certa varietà e impronte decise. Il brano d'apertura è ...

Album

Dancing on Thin Ice

Label: Immersion Records & Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: Friday Night at the Top; Life of a Cipher; Orion Rising; Luminata No. 257; One Man's Machine; Opium; Dancing on Thin Ice; Missing Mozambique; Jugs March In; The Praise Singer; Skickin' Away.

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Article: Album Review

Plunge: Dancing on Thin Ice

Read "Dancing on Thin Ice" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


There is a plangorous significance to Dancing on Thin Ice. Built on the symbolic thin ice of New Orleans' ecology, it depicts a city that has bounced back from Katrina but only just. It also tells a broader allegorical tale about the planet's teeter-tottering cultural ecology--hence the cover silhouettes of a mastodon and hammerhead shark, representing ...

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Plunge

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Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Plunge (Speed) - 4:39; 02. Tina (De Rossi) - 6:42; 03. The Daniel Quinn Theme (De Rossi) - 3:47; 04. Audio Bongo (Norman) - 1:34; 05. Zakaz (De Rossi) - 6:03; 06. Freezy (Speed) - 4:22; 07. Fujiyama (Brubeck) - 2:33; 08. Petunia (De Rossi) - 2:54; 09. Singer (De Rossi) - 5:14 10. Ida Y Vuelta (Senni) - 3 :34; 11. Abracadabra (De Rossi) - 1:53; 12. Cristo Redentor (Pearson) - 3:04.

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Article: Album Review

Zeno De Rossi Sultry: Plunge

Read "Plunge" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


A distanza di quattro anni dall'esordio, il trio Sultry del batterista Zeno De Rossi pubblica il secondo capitolo con la nuova etichetta El Gallo Rojo Records. La formazione base (Chris Speed al tenore e clarinetto, Stefano Senni al contrabbasso e De Rossi alla batteria) è rimasta la stessa ma si aggiungono due nuovi ospiti: il tastierista ...

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Article: Album Review

Plunge: Plunge with Bobo Stenson

Read "Plunge with Bobo Stenson" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The members of the young Swedish group Plunge scored a real coup when they got a musician of Bobo Stenson's stature to play on their second album. The collaboration began in the fall of 2002 when Plunge invited Stenson to join the band for a few concerts in Sweden, which were very successful and marked the ...


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