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Still, Up In The Air

Label: Hot Cup Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Sequence Three; Sequence Eight; Sequence Nine; Sequence Ten; Sequence Eleven; Sequence Six/Twelve; Sequence Fourteen.

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Moppa Elliott: Still, Up In The Air

Read "Still, Up In The Air" reviewed by Luca Canini


Non è facile volere bene a quel brontolone del contrabbasso quando decide di mettersi in proprio. Il legno, le corde, l'archetto, il suono goffo e introverso, le note slabbrate, imprecise, la fatica immane di cavare sangue dal più rapa degli strumenti: poche altre situazioni in ambito improvvisativo sanno essere più scorbutiche e meno amichevoli. Eppure la ...

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Moppa Elliott: Still, Up In The Air

Read "Still, Up In The Air" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


In his usual role as bassist and leader of the jazz group Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Moppa Elliott focuses on composing and bandleading. So his first solo double-bass album represents a real departure. In many ways it resembles band mate Jon Irabagon's recent solo sopranino saxophone album Inaction is an Action: an often abstract ...

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Moppa Elliott: Still, Up In The Air

Read "Still, Up In The Air" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


The founder and bassist of Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Matthew “Moppa" Elliott, has kept his own solos to a minimum on MOPDtK recordings, giving the spotlight over to trumpeter Peter Evans, saxophonist Jon Irabagon and now pianist Ron Stabinsky. However, his very recent participation as one of the Big Five Chord quintet, on guitarist ...


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