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Dan Willis: Velvet Gentlemen
Così “Gentle Soul“ è uno slow tempo morbido con un intervento da brivido di Chuk MacKinnon alla tromba, ed un climax avvolgente ed emotivamente forte. “Place of Enlightenment“ intreccia delicatamente profumi di world music, grazie all’uso di strumenti a fiato etnici, con un’ambientazione fusion sottolineata dalla chitarra di Pete McCann. “Door to Yesterday“ svela una liricità affine ad alcune pagine del Pat Metheny Group, “I’m Not the Reverend“ possiede una commovente spiritualità, mentre “3:10 Local“ sconfina nei territori di certo free-funk urbano.
Dan Willis, sassofonista, specialista di strumenti a fiato tipici dell’Europa orientale, compositore di musica da film oltre che apprezzato esecutore in ensemble di musica contemporanea, si ritaglia, discretamente, pochi spazi solistici, avendo maggiormente a cuore il suono e l‘organizzazione complessiva dell’ensemble. Operazione riuscita, perché a dispetto dell’eterogeneità del materiale musicale, Velvet Gentlemen suona decisamente unitario, con una giusta dose di imprevedibilità e dei musicisti che si divertono un mondo a cambiare, talvolta, le carte in tavola.
Track Listing
Many Worlds Theory; Nothing is Real; Place of Enlightenment; Door to Yesterday; Velvet Gentlemen; Closed Loops in Time; I
Personnel
Dan Willis
saxophoneDan Willis: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, oboe, English horn, duduk, sinai, suona, zura, piccolo, bass clarinet, samba whistle; Chuck MacKinnon, trumpet, flugelhorn, EFX; Pete McCann: electric guitar; Kermit Driscoll: electric bass; Stephan Crump: bass, electric bass; Ron Oswanski: Fender Rhodes piano, accordion; John Hollenbeck: drums, percussion.
Album information
Title: Velvet Gentlemen | Year Released: 2007 | Record Label: OmniTone
About Dan Willis
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