Simpatico (album)
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| Studio album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5 | ||||
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| Label (s) | Atavistic Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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1:05:30 |
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Vandermark 5 |
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Studio (s) |
Airwave Studios, Chicago |
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Simpatico is a jazz album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5. The recordings made on December 12th and 13th, 1998 at Airwave Studios, Chicago, were released on June 8th, 1999 on Atavistic Records .
background
It was the third recording of the Vandermark 5 , the first in which Dave Rempis replaced Mars Williams as saxophonist . Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis play along with trombonist / guitarist Jeb Bishop , Kent Kessler on bass and drummer Tim Mulvenna . The eight pieces on Simpatico are all homages to various jazz and improvisational greats who influenced Vandermark in one way or another.
Track list
- The Vandermark 5: Simpatico (Atavistic ALP107CD)
- Vent (for Glenn Spearman ) 7:00 am
- Fact And Fiction (for Curtis Counce ) 8:51
- Full Deck (for Jack Montrose ) 5:20
- Anywhere Else (for Sheila Major ) 9:58
- STHLM (for Mats Gustafsson ) 9:09
- Cover to Cover (for Frank Butler ) 8:30
- Point Blank (for Frank Rosolino ) 8:41
- Encino (for John Carter ) 8:01
- All compositions are by Ken Vandermark.
reception
Thom Jurek gave the album four stars in Allmusic and finds The Vandermark 5 remarkable on its third recording session. Woodwind players Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis, along with Jeb Bishop, Kent Kessler and Tim Mulvenna, would have created some of the most exciting new jazz music in the world. Vandermark and his band used both American jazz musicians for their spiritual inspiration as well as the European model of free jazz improvisation and came up with something very special: a solid, grainy, soulful, funky and stormy band that the souls of Sun Ra , Steve Lacy , Albert Ayler, and James Brown's JBs in their collective grip.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "Rempis is a surprising replacement for Williams, and since he only plays alto, the palette is narrowed slightly - although this charged and superbly focused set is certainly the best of the group [so far]."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review of Thom Jurek's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 1, 2020.
- ↑ The Vandermark 5: Simpatico at Discogs
- ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. P. 1488. ISBN 0140515216 .