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Chris May's Best Releases of 2012
by Chris May
Christian ScottaTunde AdjuahConcord RecordsIn 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker's jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz's most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of ...
Marco Benevento: TigerFace
by Chris May
When a renegade instrumentalist such as keyboardist/sonic adventurer Marco Benevento records an album with a relatively big budget, and with the shock-horror addition of a vocalist, it can be bad news for the core audience. Bye bye bohemia, hello mainstream. TigerFace was tracked, not at Benevento's usual Brooklyn location, but at Los Angeles' EastWest studio, where ...
Todd Clouser's A Love Electric: 20th Century Folk Selections
by Mark Corroto
More than rock musicians and more than blues artists, jazz musicians carry the greatest burden of musical legacy. There are not stories about a contemporary rock musician who dedicates his career to mastering The Beatles catalog, or of the one who's playing is paralyzed because she cannot deal with Jimi Hendrix's solos. Nope. Only in jazz ...
Operation Long Leash
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2011
Track listing: Skerik: tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, effects, Rhodes 54, Moog
Micromoog, acoustic grand piano; Mike Dillon: drums, vibraphone, effects, table, timbales, percussion, vocals; Brad Houser: bass, effects, baritone saxophone; Charlie Hunter: guitar (2).
Always Be Happy But Stay Evil
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2011
Track listing: Omar; Resentment Incubator; Earl Harvin; Shooting Breaks; Kansas
(interlude); Swellage; The Drum Department; Thumb; Baby Mama
Drama; Chimp & Flower; Dark Bogul (interlude); Assault On Precinct 13.
Garage a Trois: Always Be Happy But Stay Evil
by Doug Collette
Once the most cerebral of groovemeisters, when guitarist Charlie Hunter collaborated with saxophonist Skerik, vibraphonist Mike Dillon and drummer Stanton Moore, Garage a Trois reinvented itself two years ago when keyboardist Marco Benevento took the guitarist's place, a process that now continues with Always Be Happy But Stay Evil. In contrast to the kamikaze ...
The Dead Kenny Gs: Operation Long Leash
by Mark Corroto
The powerhouse trio known as The Dead Kenny Gs answers the musical question: can a jazz band have an uplift mofo party plan? With its collective experience, the group certainly can take the music one step beyond. Like their inspired namesakes, the 1970/80s punk band The Dead Kennedys, saxophonist Skerik, drummer/vibraphonist Mike Dillon, and ...
Between The Needles & Nightfall
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2010
Track listing: Greenpoint; Between The Needles; Two Of You; Numbers; It Came From You; Ila Frost; RISD; You Know I'm No Good; Music Is Still Secret; Wolf Trap; Snow Lake.
Marco Benevento: Between The Needles & Nightfall
by Chris May
Marco Benevento covers a lot of ground in his search for the lost chord--jazz, rock, jam band and spangly pop--but the Brooklyn-based composer and keyboard player is no fusionist. To borrow a description applied to bassist and producer Bill Laswell in the mid 1980s, Benevento is a collisionist: he doesn't so much sit on the fence ...
Power Patriot
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2009
Track listing: Rescue Spreaders; Fragile; Dory's Day Out; Electric Doorbell Machine; Power Patriot; Dugout;
Fat Redneck Gangster; Purgatory; Germs; Computer Crimes.
