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The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?
by Troy Collins
Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles ...
Endangered Blood: Endangered Blood
by Mark Corroto
Endangered Blood formed in 2008, to play a benefit concert to help pay for fellow musician Andrew D'Angelo's medical bills. For the performance, drummer Jim Black and bassist Trevor Dunn--two of the saxophonist's band mates--enlisted saxophonists Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega. As happens so often in modern groups, familiar players in different combination produce compelling results.
The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ora possiamo dirlo: il Claudia Quintet si è fatto “maniera". Il processo di cristallizzazione abbozzato su Semi-Formal e For, con Royal Toast è giunto a perfetto compimento. Gli orizzonti del possibile sono azzerati. Le attese e la curiosità dell'ascoltatore soffocate in un gioco sterile di autocompiacimento estetizzato. Le “forme" hanno preso definitivamente il sopravvento, sono diventate ...
The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast
by David Adler
With one exception, drummer John Hollenbeck hasn't taken prominent front-cover credit on releases by The Claudia Quintet. This holds true for Royal Toast, the band's extraordinary fifth album. The decision makes sense, for Hollenbeck's labyrinthine compositions get much of their subtlety and force from the individual players that have defined the group's identity from the start. ...
The Claudia Quintet: For
by Jerry D'Souza
The Claudia Quintet has been evolving and shaping its music, creating a potent and forceful presence. They do it with graceful finesse; working the elements to let melody get its due and improvisation mark its presence. Think of the quintet as a minstrel of joy and the charm of their music becomes apparent. Theirs is a ...
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Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: I'm So Fickin' Cool; August 5th, 2006; Be Happy; This Too Shall Pass; Rug Boy; For You; Rainy Days/Peanut Vendor Mash-up; Three Odes: Admiration, Nostalgia, Pity.
The Claudia Quintet: For
by Mark Corroto
Drummer John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet has created a sound. Let's not call it jazz, or chamber music, or rock for that matter. It is the Claudia sound, period. The trouble, of course with being original, is that the pigeon-holers cannot pigeonhole you and the radio folks won't play you. But then, everyone with an ear for ...
The Claudia Quintet: For
by Tom Greenland
It's a challenge to describe the Claudia Quintet's sound: there are patent references, but distinct departures from these references as well. For, their newest project on Cuneiform, reunites Drew Gress (bass), John Hollenbeck (drums and electronica), Matt Moran (vibes), Ted Reichman (accordion) and Chris Speed (clarinet and tenor sax), continuing a trajectory established on three previous ...
The Claudia Quintet: For
by John Kelman
While it's invariably the intention of any group to make each new record an improvement or, at least, an evolution over the last one, it's rare that it actually happens with inevitable consistency. Bucking the trend since its eponymous 2001 CRI debut, percussionist/composer John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet has managed to make each successive release somehow different ...
The Claudia Quintet: For
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un nome che evoca seriosi ensemble cameristici, un gruppo di improvvisatori con un background che copre tutto l’arco costituzionale di generi e stili musicali, una combinazione di strumenti acustici alquanto insolita dalle potenzialità sconosciute e dagli sviluppi imprevedibili. The Claudia Quintet, l’ennesima formazione del vulcanico e poliedrico John Hollenbeck, nata nel 1997 dalla ceneri del trio ...
