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Artist: PAUL SMOKER/DAMON SHORT QUINTET Title: No Stock Options Label: Nine Winds 291 Country: USA Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $15.00
Description: Featuring Paul Smoker on trumpet & compositions, Chuck Burdelik on woodwinds, Ryan Shultz on bass trumpet, Ken Filiano on bass and Damon Short on drums & compositions. Dedicated to the late engineer, producer and arranger, David Baker, who also engineered some of these tracks. Ace trumpet master, Paul Smoker, has worked with a number of the best musicians around like Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Ellery Eskelin, Adam Lane & Phil Haynes. Drum wiz Damon Short has co-led bands with Smoker for a while, this appears to be their fourth disc together. I don't know the other members of this fine quintet, except for bi-coastal contrabass great Ken Filiano, but I was still knocked out by this amazing disc nonetheless.
"To the Quick" begins with some an intense, full blast duo of trumpet and drums by the two co-leaders. When the rest of the horns and bass come in, the excitement goes up another notch. Whoa! Super tight, super quick and totally burnin'! Damon's incredibly powerful and inventive drums push the quintet higher and higher, so that when Chuck comes in tenor sax to solo, he has to reach for the stars. Ryan Shultz, who plays the rarely heard bass trumpet, also takes an incredible solo on his trombone-like sounding horn. The title piece features more well-written parts for the horns with inspired solos from each of them. I dig the way the other horns play underneath soloist at times adding layers of different parts at certain times. Sometimes solos will overlap while the rhythm team plays with each soloist simultaneously. Chuck plays some fine bass clarinet on "Goodbye, David" along with Ken's superb bowed bass. The tune is a poignant, ballad-like piece that is most sublime. "Obsidian" is their great epic-length work with outstanding horns soaring above the furious rhythm team. All of the horns take an impressive solo while the bass and drums swirl intensely below them. This is a consistently inspired and especially intense quintet with strong playing and writing as well. Nine Winds seems to taking its time with releasing new material these days. With great material like two discs just released, it seems to be well worth the wait. - BLG
| Artist: PAUL SMOKER/DAMON SHORT QUINTET |
| Title: No Stock Options |
| Label: Nine Winds 291 Country: USA |
| Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $15.00 |
| Description: Featuring Paul Smoker on trumpet & compositions, Chuck Burdelik on woodwinds, Ryan Shultz on bass trumpet, Ken Filiano on bass and Damon Short on drums & compositions. Dedicated to the late engineer, producer and arranger, David Baker, who also engineered some of these tracks. Ace trumpet master, Paul Smoker, has worked with a number of the best musicians around like Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Ellery Eskelin, Adam Lane & Phil Haynes. Drum wiz Damon Short has co-led bands with Smoker for a while, this appears to be their fourth disc together. I don't know the other members of this fine quintet, except for bi-coastal contrabass great Ken Filiano, but I was still knocked out by this amazing disc nonetheless. "To the Quick" begins with some an intense, full blast duo of trumpet and drums by the two co-leaders. When the rest of the horns and bass come in, the excitement goes up another notch. Whoa! Super tight, super quick and totally burnin'! Damon's incredibly powerful and inventive drums push the quintet higher and higher, so that when Chuck comes in tenor sax to solo, he has to reach for the stars. Ryan Shultz, who plays the rarely heard bass trumpet, also takes an incredible solo on his trombone-like sounding horn. The title piece features more well-written parts for the horns with inspired solos from each of them. I dig the way the other horns play underneath soloist at times adding layers of different parts at certain times. Sometimes solos will overlap while the rhythm team plays with each soloist simultaneously. Chuck plays some fine bass clarinet on "Goodbye, David" along with Ken's superb bowed bass. The tune is a poignant, ballad-like piece that is most sublime. "Obsidian" is their great epic-length work with outstanding horns soaring above the furious rhythm team. All of the horns take an impressive solo while the bass and drums swirl intensely below them. This is a consistently inspired and especially intense quintet with strong playing and writing as well. Nine Winds seems to taking its time with releasing new material these days. With great material like two discs just released, it seems to be well worth the wait. - BLG |