Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Free Download from Mostly Other People Do The Killing
MOPDTK will be performing and signing CDs on Saturday, August 6
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Mostly Other People Do The Killing is: John Irabagon, saxophone; Peter Elliott, trumpet; Kevin Shea, drums; Moppa Elliot, bass
The Fourth Album by Mostly Other People Do the Killing!!!!
In the first minute of the opening track, "Pen Argyl", you know this is no ordinary post-Millennium "hard bop blowing session." From the funky bass line to Shea's drum barrage to the melody lines that scramble and shake up the listener, the overall experience is "hot." The tempo changes on a dime, with moments that sound like Louis Armstrong Hot 5 that give way abstractions along the line of the Art Ensemble of Chicago to funky breakdowns a la Tower of Power (and that happens in the first 3 minutes of the disk.) - Richard B. Kamins
Mostly Other People Do the Killing is a quartet founded on the idea that not only is Jazz still alive and vibrant, but it can and should be fun, engaging and thoroughly contemporary. Under the playful pseudonym, "Leonardo Featherweight," Elliott writes, "Rather than settling into one style or historical period, MOPDTK fuses the entire spectrum of Jazz and the various forms of improvised music it has spawned into a single, seamless melange of Uber-Jass."
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