Fight the Big Bull - All Is Gladness in The Kingdom

Fight the Big Bull - All Is Gladness in The Kingdom

Жанр: Avant-Garde / Modern Creative / Progressive Big Band / Clean Feed
Год выпуска диска: 2010
Производитель диска: Clean Feed CF169; Portugal
Аудио кодек: (MP3 + FLAC)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 11:16:20
Jason Scott: tenor and alto saxophone, clarinet
J.C. Kuhl: tenor saxophone, clarinet
John Lilley: tenor saxophone
Steven Bernstein: trumpet, slide trumpet
Bob Miller: trumpet
Reggie Pace: trombone
Bryan Hooten: trombone
Matt White: guitar
Cameron Ralston: bass
Brian Jones: percussion
Pinson Chanselle: trap kit
Eddie Prendergast: electric bass (7)
1. Mobile Tigers
2. Mothra
3. The Sacred Harp
4. Jemima Surrender
5. Gold Lions
6. All Is Gladness in The Kingdom
7. Eddie and Cameron Strike Back / Satchel Paige
8. Martin Denny
9. Rockers

Free Jazz Review

I am not a fan of big bands, even small big bands, yet there are some exceptions. Some of Charlie Haden's albums for instance, or Carla Bley's. And this one : Fight The Big Bull. The Band started with an excellent, but all too short Dying Will Be Easy, also on Clean Feed, two years ago. For their second album, Fight The Big Bull, led by guitarist Matt White, is a little more expanded. The band consists of Jason Scott, JC Kuhl and John Lilley on reeds, Bob Millier on trumpet, Reggie Pace and Bryan Hooten on trombone, Cameron Ralston on bass, Brian Jones and Pinson Chanselle on percussion. Eddie Prendergast joins on electric bass on one track. The featured guest star, composer and arranger is trumpeter Steven Bernstein, known from his work on Tzadik, the Sex Mob, MOT.
On the upside, Bernstein is a great slide trumpeter and arranger.
On the downside, it gives the album the same distant veneer of all Bernstein's work : great exercises in style and genre, with lots of attention to the entertainment factor and a demonstration of prowess that basically drowns feeling and authenticity.
The first album lacked some of the complexity of this one, but it was so heart-rending, authentic and majestic, full of dark drama, tragedy and deep-felt anger, whereas here, the element of distant playfulness is introduced, and it reduces the listening experience to something more middle-of-the-road. The band is still great, the playing good, but the end result is less compelling. I wish they had continued their original concept. ~ Free Jazz Blog

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