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Rob Price Quartet: I Really Do Not See The Signal
by Michael Caratti
I Really Do Not See The Signal is the second Rob Price Quartet record, following At Sunset (Gutbrain, 2004), which featured Ellery Eskelin, Trevor Dunn and Joey Baron. This recording, with Jim Black replacing Baron on drums, is both more aggressive and adventurous in its approach.
Each piece on the album was written specifically for these musicians, who bring intensity and ingenuity to the recording. Price's understated and tasteful guitar work provides his band the space to explore all textural ...
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by Franz A. Matzner
Jazz is no stranger to eclecticism. Musicians have been bending, breaking, reshaping, and reincorporating since the very beginning of jazz history. In fact, departing from jazz tradition might as well be the definition of jazz. If that is indeed the case, guitarist Rob Price has, with his current release, At Sunset , marked himself as a classical jazz composer and player. Combining everything from free improvisation to country, blues, and California surf music, Price has made a ...
read moreJohn Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet & Rob Price's Group at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia
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All About Jazz
Ars Nova Workshop presents:
Thursday, February 3 | 8pm John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet with John Hollenbeck, drums, percussion Chris Speed, clarinet Ted Reichman, accordian Matt Moran, vibraphone Drew Gress, double-bass
The Claudia Quintet's newest release, I, Claudia (Cuneiform Records) demonstrates that innovative jazz...can be delicate, witty, ethereal and radiantly lyric" [Chicago Tribune]. Their music is highly seductive, ripe with compelling, propulsive grooves, dynamic sensitivity ...
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"I'd heard good things about Price's previous work but this disc is my first encounter with his music. He's not the most ostentatious player, which tends to serve his music well. It also gives plenty of room to his high energy band, for Eskelin's always-inventive expressions and the bustling vigor of Dunn and Black, both supple and muscular. Price, to put it somewhat simply, rocks out quite a bit, with a heavy use of distortion and a predilection for walls of sound and repeating licks. He's got more in his bag, though, and he's also a canny enough player for this not to overwhelm the music—indeed, he uses the distorted tones resourcefully to generate lots of texture ("Dashiell Hammett & Barbara Pym") and some nice fractured rhythms ("Girasol" and the bouncing "Modern Mongoose")
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From: At SunsetBy Rob Price
Girasol
From: I Really Do Not See The SignalBy Rob Price