Propaganda (Ted Sirota album)
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| Studio album by Ted Sirota 'Soul Rebels | ||||
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| Label (s) | Naim Records | |||
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CD |
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8th |
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Ted Sirota |
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Pro Musica Studios, Hinsdale, Illinois |
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Propaganda is the second album by the American jazz ensemble Ted Sirota ’s Soul Rebels. It was recorded on October 12th and 13th, 1998 at Ken Christianson's Pro Musica Studio, located in Union Church in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, Illinois . The recordings were released in 1999 on the British label Naim Records .
background
Sirota worked on his band project Soul Rebels with musicians with whom he had worked in other formations, such as Tortoise, Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground Orquestra .
The album begins with the ska grooves of "Geronimo's Free", which was joined by bass trumpeter Ryan Schultz as a guest. Michael G. Nastos reminds the following composition "Ten" in sound and playing posture of the music of John Scofield , Michael Brecker , Pat Metheny and Joe Lovano ; like the "glowing finale" of "Hemiola". These pieces contrast with Kevin Kizer's playing on the tenor saxophone in the waltz “Carolynn's Blues” and the ballad “Lonely People” with Kizer and guitarist Jeff Parker as soloists. “The nifty number” “Little Spots” comes from Jeff Parker, “La Danse de Janvier” is determined by African groove, supported by percussionist Ruben Alvarez.
Track list
- Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Propaganda (Naim - NAIMCD 036)
- Geronimo's Free (Sirota) 6:19
- Ten (Mazurek) 9:46
- Carolynn's Blues (Kizer) 6:39
- Propaganda (Sirota) 6:50
- Lonely People (Mazurek) 6:05
- La Danse de Janvier (Sirota) 9:31
- Little Spots (Parker) 6:59
- Hemiola (Parker) 8:52
review
Michael G. Nastos rated the album at Allmusic four (out of five) stars and thinks that the second album of Rebel Souls show it here as many [Music] investment styles of instrumental music as neo-bop jazz , highlife include, listeige grooves and Ska . Drummer Sirota leads the Chicago-based quintet and guests through eight original compositions of the band members, which are played with “spirit and competence”, “which goes beyond their name.” Nastos emphasizes Rob Mazurek's playing on the stuffed cornet. It is “entirely a democratic band that draws from many sources, but remains true to its collective self.” The solos have creative tones, and the music “is held together by a uniform concept. Anyone looking for something new in the contemporary arena of modern jazz should find this recording refreshing, ”sums up the author.
Christopher Porter ( JazzTimes ) praised: "If the purpose of propaganda serves the cause, drummer Ted Sirota has made me a believer". His second album as band leader is full of ideas, from the ska jumper "Geronimo's Free" to the slightly Latin- influenced “La Danse de Janvier”, reminiscent of the fusion music of the 1970s, in which Rick Gehrenebeck's Fender piano and Jeff Parker's guitar are so silky smooth that their playing flows “into an amorphous whole”. Rob Mazurek has “a meager sound, often amplified by a damper, that favors wonderfully small melodic statements instead of long, winding (or confused) stories.” Meanwhile, the “always impressive” Jeff Parker plays partially choppy post-bop chords ; “These are then abstracted through subtle rhythmic variations”. The title “Carolyn's Blues” shows a chord progression similar to “ My Favorite Things ” and has “a slightly swinging impression”, which gives room for the somewhat chaotic, freely laid out title “Propaganda”; but the following ballad “Lonely People” justifies the things in which saxophonist Kevin Kizer and bassist Noel Kuppersmith, in their interplay, give the piece a pathos-laden emotional anchorage. Throughout the entire CD, Sirota played effortlessly, "and he gave the songs and musicians space to breathe and tell their stories." All of this makes this propaganda very convincing, the author concludes.
In All About Jazz , Joel Roberts wrote: "I was immediately enthusiastic about the first track on this album": "Geronimo's Free" are characterized by a relaxed, free-flowing melody that leads jazz solos over a ska backbeat and to the best of the Skatellites remember. But the music of Ted Sirota's band, the Rebel Souls , is not dominated by one style; Propaganda offers "a little bit of everything", bebop , avant-garde jazz , jazz-rock , even a touch of blues , which is not surprising given Sirota's earlier membership in the band of blues musician Eddie Kirkland . “But the overwhelming inspiration for this daring, piano-less quintet seems to be the great band of Ornette Coleman .” For example, the title track is a “ free jazz excursion, driven by Sirota's wild drumming.” The “Sirota” also composed “ La Danse de Janvier “again combines funky dance and rock grooves over African percussion. Other tracks like Mazurek's “Ten” and Jeff Parker's “Hemiola” stick closer to familiar territory, “they build on catchy bebop riffs, but allow the soloists to penetrate into uncharted territory.” What sets this group apart from the crowd closes the author, be your open ears and your thirst for adventure. The Rebel Souls would “cover many areas stylistically, but it never feels forced or unnatural.” Here is “an intelligent, future-oriented band that knows how to swing. Definitely worth hearing. "
The critic Peter Margasak praised in the Chicago Reader that this “excellent second publication” was a “rich collection of the diversity of the postbop. With the free jazz scene's current emphasis on free improvisation, hyper-dynamic brass and bold mixes of styles, we can't hear enough of this kind of thing. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the album at Allegro
- ↑ a b Review of the album Propaganda by Michael G. Nastos at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- ↑ Christopher Porter: Review of the Propaganda album . JazzTimes, April 1, 2000, accessed February 2, 2019 .
- ^ Review in All About Jazz
- ^ Local Record Roundup. Chicago Reader, January 1, 2000, accessed February 3, 2019 .