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Avant-Retro or Retro-Avant? Part II

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 3, 2020

Anthony Braxton playing standards? Don Byron and Phillip Johnston playing the music of Raymond Scott? Nothing to be suprised about... as musicians have a more open mind than critics like to recognize. So here's the second part of this week's show focusing on retro-sounding jazz performed by forward-leaning musicians -a bit like the jazz equivalent of ...

The Four Bags: Waltz

by Luca Casarotti
May 2, 2018

C'è il rischio di suonare passatisti, didascalici o monocordi, a voler dedicare un disco intero al tempo di walzer. Da questi esiti si tiene lontano il lavoro più recente di The Four Bags, inequivocabilmente intitolato Waltz, che riesce a esplorare con originalità un genere dalla tradizione tanto pregnante. Peculiare, del quartetto newyorkese, è prima di tutto ...

Waltz

By The Four Bags

Label: NCM East
Released: 2017
Track listing: El caballo bayo; Les valse des as (Curha Remix 1); Runaway Waltz; Waltz of the Jacobs; Invisible Waltz; Les valse des as (Curha Remix 2); Puerta del principe; Les valse des as (Curha Remix 3); Vaults Dumb 'Ore; G Is for Geezus; Les valse des as.

Forth

By The Four Bags

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: Wayne Shorter's Tune With All Different Notes; Run; Terpsichore; Pope Joy; Comfort Toon; Imaginary Soda; A Brief Nirvana; Girias Do Norte; The Burning; Sweet Home California.

The Four Bags: Forth

by Glenn Astarita
November 2, 2011

The musicians who comprise this indubitably inventive New York City-based quartet have respectively performed with the likes of Anthony Braxton, Lee Konitz and Clark Terry, in addition to large-scale symphonies and orchestras. Ultimately, the artists' diverse resumes and many-sided viewpoints effectively transfer to this rather sprightly multi-format program, spanning countless applications, yet cohesively shaped into an ...

The Four Bags: The Four Bags: Live at Barbes

by Elliott Simon
December 13, 2006

Personnel-wise, the Four Bags have a more than tenuous connection to Balkan beat masters Slavic Soul Party. Musically however, this foursome treads the more ambiguous territory of worldly flavored chamber/contemporary classical jazz. This is turf the Four Bags have nurtured and in a large way defined. Their two previous releases included, among classically grounded originals, the ...

Offshore

By The Four Bags

Label: NCM East
Released: 2005
Track listing: Humble Daisy; The Pioneers; The Brothers El-Sayed; You And I; Beach; Two Mazurkas; Ballad; Last Tango In NYC; Spop; Energy Plan; Wedding Piece; O.K. Aki

The Four Bags: Offshore

by Stephen Latessa
April 23, 2005

It is difficult to determine whether an album cover affects how you feel about the music contained within, or if some cover art is just particularly representative of the musical content. Either way, Russian artist Erik Bulatov's painting Red Horizon perfectly fits the music created by the Four Bags on Offshore. Certainly the whirling whimsy of ...

The Four Bags

By The Four Bags

Label: Four Bags, The
Released: 2002
Track listing: Trevoga; K-Lounge; Good Vibrations; Distance; Family Vacation; Sketch; Here Today; Se Queen; The Quarry; Alabama Song; Interlude; and Banco Popular.