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The Stein Brothers Quintet: Quixotic

by AAJ Italy Staff
Il bebop è il filo conduttore di questo eccellente disco d’esordio, firmato dai fratelli Asher e Alex Stein. Impegnati rispettivamente al sax alto e tenore, i due musicisti newyorkesi traggono dal modello di riferimento una ricerca timbrica ed un’articolazione espressiva per nulla consolatoria o stucchevole, per snodarsi con bella tensione collettiva in un percorso sonoro altamente ...
The Stein Brothers Quintet: Quixotic

by Laurel Gross
Things couldn’t be tougher for young musicians trying to make a name for themselves on the talent-rich-but-job-scarce New York scene. Or, perhaps in these dicey economic times they could. In any case, fans of straight-ahead may be glad that saxophonists Asher and Alex Stein have stuck it out. Siblings and even twins ...
The Stein Brothers Quintet: Quixotic

by Michael P. Gladstone
The theatre darkens and the curtain opens. The opening frame on the silver screen shows a foggy, cliff-side road like the Pacific Coast Highway. An Austin-Healey convertible, with the top down, is negotiating the curves along the scenic stretch. As the camera slowly zooms in on the driver's head, the music from the radio is clearly ...
The Stein Brothers Quintet: Quixotic

by Eyal Hareuveni
The debut release of the Stein Brothers--Asher on alto sax and Alex on tenor--offers a journey into the bop universe, as defined and structured about fifty years ago. It is done in such a joyful and elegant manner, with remarkable conviction and proficiency in bop's rich musical language, that its anachronistic styling can be forgiven.
The Stein Brothers Quintet: Quixotic

by Edward Blanco
The brotherly saxophone duo of Alex and Asher Stein makes its extraordinary record debut with the very boppish Quixotic, which surprisingly turns out to be one of the finest bop-infused albums of the year. Two young cubs--not quiet lions of jazz yet, but certainly on the way to earning that distinction, Alex plays the tenor with ...