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Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
by George Kanzler
Stephen Foster was America's first pop songwriter, his music widely sung and played, as well as reproduced on music boxes (this album begins and ends with examples) in the last half of the 19th Century. But Foster is not the only uniquely American musician clarinetist Andy Biskin takes inspiration from in this idiosyncratic album. The spirit ...
Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
By Andy Biskin
Label: Strudelmedia
Released: 2006
Track listing: My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!; Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair; Early American; Camptown Races; Journey Cake; Oh! Susanna; Fits and Starts; Hard Times Come Again No More; Nelly Bly; Thin King Thinking; Old Folks At Home; Old Black Joe; Dom Casual; There's a Good Time Coming; Beautiful Dreamer; Kid Proof; Old Folks At Home.
Trio Tragico
By Andy Biskin
Label: Strudelmedia
Released: 2006
Track listing: Boomerang; I Should Talk; Hey Day; Walking Distance; I Think Not; You That Knew Him;
Paging Mr. Yes; Night Shade; Over The years; Top Left Corner; Still Busy (The Honk Honk
Song); You Who; Plaything.
Andy Biskin: Trio Tragico
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Andy Biskin spins a musical tragicomedy on Trio Tragico. With Dave Ballou (trumpet) and Drew Gress (bass), he presents a melancholic but discretely jovial blend of chamber music and exciting new rhythms. The clarinetist's live set at Cornelia Street Café in early October captured the electricity of the trio. The improvisational bits of ...
Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
by AAJ Italy Staff
Clarinettista atipico, assai poco assimilabile ad altri illustri conterranei come Don Byron o Chris Speed per citarne alcuni, Andy Biskin si colloca in una sorta di terra di nessuno, un piede nel cosiddetto jazz creativo e l’altro nel solco di tutto ciò che è tradizione storia, cultura e radici americane. Con questo Early American - The ...
Andy Biskin: Trio Tragico
by AAJ Italy Staff
Delude questo Trio Tragico. C’erano almeno tre motivi che portavano ad attendere un album di ben altra fattura e caratura. La strumentazione atipica, tromba clarinetto e contrabbasso, faceva intravedere combinazioni timbriche avvincenti e ricche di sfumature. Al contrario il clima generale del disco rasenta la monotonia se non addirittura la noia, con rarissimi scarti timbrici ed ...
Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
In the October 2006 issue of Jazzman magazine, Vincent Bessières documents the explosion of jazz renditions of compositions by Björk, pointing to versions by artists like Geoff Keezer, Marcin Wasilewski, Greg Osby, Eric Legnini, Jason Moran, Larry Goldings and Dave Douglas. (If he'd waited another month or so, he could have included a lovely reading of ...
Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies Of Stephen Foster
by Jim Santella
Clarinetist Andy Biskin leads his creative quartet through an interesting program of Stephen Foster songs and several originals. As much as possible, he's tried to capture the composer's original intentions. Stephen Collins Foster (1826-64) was born and raised just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the North. His songs, however, reflected life along the Mississippi ...
Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies Of Stephen Foster
by Mark Corroto
From the bandstand, the leader calls out, “...and now, folks, we're going to play you a tune written 150 years ago. Wait. What? Are you kidding? Nobody wants to hear the Britney Spears track that was huge five years ago! But then again, in the cultural evolutionary battle of the fittest, the music of ...
The Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
by Dan McClenaghan
The songs of Stephen Foster (1826-64) seem to have seeped into our American DNA, especially for those of us of a certain age. We sang “Oh! Susanna," “Old Folks," “Camptown Races" and other Foster gems in elementary school--badly, if memory serves me, with an unrestrained, window-rattling youthful gusto on “Oh! Susanna." Those melodies are part of ...
