Results for "Reptet"

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Reptet Tour

March 10, 2009

REPTET WEST COAST TOUR MARCH 2009 Reptet make new music by merrily hopping around the history of jazz. A stereotypical, finger-snapping walking bass lick can smartly mingle with a dissonant free-jazz freak-out, a moody, minor-key TV-cop-show melody, or an Anthony Braxtoninspired lamination of simultaneous layers. Best of all, Reptet make jazz fun. - The ...

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Chicken or Beef?

By Reptet

Label: Monktail Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Danger Notes; Reptet Score!; eltiT; Eve of Thrieve; Chicken or Beef?; That's Chicken or Beef; Gwand Wabbit; Fish Market; Swanni; Kill the Air; Go Bears.

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Reptet: Chicken or Beef?

Read "Chicken or Beef?" reviewed by Henry Smith

by Henry Smith
December 1, 2008

A sextet based out of Seattle, Washington, Reptet present a sound and message that, in its own words, aptly describes both the group's approach and its broader mission “to compose, interpret and improvise music that inspires growth through freedom and discipline." Working within a good-natured, party band atmosphere, the unit manages to stretch its genre's typical ...

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Reptet: Chicken or Beef?

Read "Chicken or Beef?" reviewed by Dave Major

by Dave Major
November 30, 2008

Free jazz and the avant-garde form an interesting and self-conflicted paradigm. All too often it seems musicians perceive the “free" aspect to mean that they must completely reject traditional music and become trapped in the ether of ambiguity, rather than perhaps accepting a loftier goal: the freedom to both use, and move beyond convention. Reptet is ...

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Reptet Announces Spring 2008 Tour

March 1, 2008

REPTET EAST COAST TOUR - APRIL 2008 “This Seattle sextet does it all: it grooves, it rocks, it squawks - occasionally, it even talks. Mostly, it sounds like a New Orleans jazz band on crystal meth." - Alexander Gelfand / Jazziz Reptet achieves “a bittersweet and elegiac mood of orchestral grandeur." - Downbeat Magazine April 2 ...

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Reptet West Coast Tour

November 23, 2007

Reptet West Coast Tour Reptet, “a juggernaut jazz band, arresting, compelling, and just plain cranked-up" (Earshot Jazz), is headed down the west coast this December in support of their highly acclaimed 2006 release Do This! “This Seattle sextet does it all: it grooves, it rocks, it squawks - occasionally, it even talks. Mostly it sounds like ...

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Do This!

By Reptet

Label: Monktail Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Zeppa; Bad Reed Blues; Ro; Harpo; Chico; Groucho; Munia's Lament; Little Caesar; H.R.; Do This!

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Reptet: Do This!

Read "Do This!" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 7, 2006

I looked up “reptet" in the dictionary. It's not there. The words skip from “reprove" to “reptile"... no “reptet" listed. Maybe I don't have a big enough dictionary, or maybe the Seattle-based sextet made it up. And why not? The music on the group's second CD is all about spontaneity and improvisation, unfettered, exuberant energy and ...

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Reptet

By Reptet

Label: Monktail Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: After Before, The Gears, Open to Morning, Inspired Strut, Already Afternoon, A Bit Nervous, The Sun is Beautiful, Resigned to Evening, Distant Distorted you, Stroll, Introspection, Mother Night.

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Reptet: Reptet

Read "Reptet" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
February 10, 2004

Reptet is a Seattle-based quartet that was dates back to 1999, when drummer John Ewing began to assemble its other members, a process that continued over the course of the next two years. The group prides itself upon their eclectic repertoire, featuring compositions by outside musicians such as Horace Tapscott and Misha Mengelberg. Despite ...