AprilCadence2013

CUPBEARERS / ALLY / THE
SHERIFF / WITH MALICE
TOWARDS NONE / ALL
MEMBERS / MARILIA /
SUITE PORT AU PRINCE
/ NEW YORK 19 / QUEM
QUIZER / THE THUMPER
/ COUNT ME IN / REPEAT
/ LASS FROM THE LOW
COUNTRIE / DOWN BY THE
GREENWOOD SIDE / WE
SHALL OVERCOME. 75:00.
Jay Cameron replaces Rout;
Chuck Israels, b; Ben Riley,
d; Cecil McBee, b (12, 14,
15); Freddie Waits, d (12, 14,
15); Jeremy Steig, f; Gene
Bertoncini, g (13).
3) ROB MAZUREK
PULSAR QUINTET
STELLAR
PULSATIONS
DELMARK DE 2018.
PRIMITIVE JUPITER / MAGIC
SATURN / SPIRITUAL
MARS / SPIRAL MERCURY /
SPANISH VENUS / TWISTER
URANUS / FOLK SONG
NEPTUNE. 47:36.
Rob Mazurek, cnt; Angelica
Sanchez, p; Matthew
Lux, bs-g; John Herndon,
d. March 2012: Chicago,
Illinois.
New Issues
172 | CadenCe Magazine | april May June 2013
Rout, trumpeter Whitsell first among shining equals.
The two-CD set combines tracks recorded in the studio
and their concert at the Kennedy White House
– fourteen of the thirty-two tracks having never been
released before. Very impressive and fresh-sounding.
Count me in.
Michael Steinman
Cornetist / composer Mazurek has a good deal to
live up to on (3) as delineated in the back-cover
notes: “… the quartet sprays, throws, erupts and
caresses 7 new Mazurek compositions that expand
upon the idea of melodic freedom within the realm
of shifting chromatics, pop-like harmonies, pulling
anthems and contrasting pedal points. An exciting
addition to the bursting catalog of Mazurek’s constant
search to crack the galaxial ceiling of what sound can
do within the universe of personality and ethereal
chaos.”
Now, I did not read that uncredited effusion until I was
in the middle of listening to the CD. A good deal of
the music does in fact “erupt” in “ethereal chaos,” with
the four players taking single and collective percussive
paths. The aural effect is rather like people talking
loudly at once on superficially related subjects. And
each of the musicians has an occasional tendency to
treat his / her instrument as a drum --- fine for Herndon
but tedious for the others. What gave me hope was
the lyrical MAGIC SATURN and FOLK SONG NEPTUNE–
searching, full of possibilities, and to a lesser degree
SPIRAL MERCURY and SPANISH VENUS.
Some might admire the controlled tumult of the other
tracks, but they are too abstract for me. I did listen
closely to the entire CD. Check it out for yourself.
Michael Steinman