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Quadro Nuevo: Mocca Flor

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by R. Emmet Sweeney
January 8, 2006

Exhaustingly Orientalist, the Austrian quartet Quadro Nuevo tries to reconstruct the fantasy Middle East of Delacroix and the fantasy Europe of An American in Paris but lacks the inspiration of both, and ends up looking like a boring artifact from a racist era. Multicultural to a fault, it packs in tangos, Neapolitan ballads, early swing tunes, ...

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David Murray 4Tet & Strings: Waltz Again

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by R. Emmet Sweeney
December 21, 2005

Waltz Again begins with a thick squall of strings and hyper-Ayler sax wailings, laying down a warning. The strings in this recording will not sit still as a plush backing for treacly balladeering, but will instead bob and weave in constant interplay with the quartet. And when the true ballads come, their beauty gleams off the ...

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Duke Ellington: Love You Madly / A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral

by R. Emmet Sweeney
December 12, 2005

Duke Ellington Love You Madly / A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral Eagle Eye Media 2005 With the glut of Ellingtonia on the market, it's impossible to separate the sublime from the merely wonderful. This release leans toward the former. Split into two programs, the first a televised ...

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Various Artists: Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert

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by R. Emmet Sweeney
December 2, 2005

The results of benefit concerts are always superior to the music they produce. Money is raised and collective guilt is soothed, but these events are usually plagued by performances of inflated self-congratulation. Wynton Marsalis, no stranger to patting his own back, puts his ego in his back pocket for the Jazz at Lincoln Center-produced Higher Ground ...