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Vertigo Quintet
VERTIGO is a young and energetic band inspired by the music of Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, ECM, as well as Bjork, Bill Frisell, John Zorn and Radiohead. VERTIGO started in late 2002 as a project of musicians with an idea to play their own music their own way. The result is an atmospheric mix of free jazz, drum&bass and ECM - type modern jazz, with respect to the vast history of music.
Marcel Barta - soprano sax, bassclarinet
Born 1974. Graduated from Pilsen Musical Conservatory, specialisation clarinet & saxophones. By the age of 17 he played in the band Jazzgang
Vertigo Quintet
Label: Amplion
Released: 2005
Track listing: Rozpravka (7:56), Really sorry (8:12), Tichy dum (7:27), Exhibionista (7:06), Elga (5:12), Dozvuk 1 (4:44), Dalasi (9:18), Predtucha (7:49), Poslepu (8:39), Dozvuk 2 [coda] (1:48)
Vertigo Quintet: Vertigo Quintet

by Budd Kopman
One of the joys of reviewing is to receive a disc by a totally unknown group and have it just sweep you away. The music of the Vertigo Quintet is at once engrossing and unpredictable, yet its architectural features have such solidity and grandeur as to wash away any uncertainty. In mentioning the ...