Lina Allemano returns for the ninth release with her quartet, all but the first featuring the lineup of Brodie West on alto saxophone, Andrew Downing on double bass, and Nick Fraser on drums. Over the past two decades, this “acoustic chamber-jazz quartet” has been the trumpet player and composer’s flagship operation amid numerous other projects (PLOOP, Ohrenschmaus, etc.). Once more, the ensemble delivers a compelling set of originals that balance elegant and at times challenging writing with free improvisation in a way that sounds simultaneously timeless and cutting-edge.
In the visual arts, a diptych is an image consisting of two parts, such as two panels connected by a hinge. Here, the six tracks form three pairs in the playing order, as indicated by the titles: “Positive”/“Negative,” “Resist”/“Coalesce” and “Scrambled”/“Over Easy.” “Positive” leads things off with a clarion call from the trumpet and builds steadily, with all four musicians bouncing off each other in a manner reminiscent of an early Ornette Coleman quartet track. “Negative,” on the other hand, starts with tight interplay between trumpet and sax and takes a more leisurely and fragmented approach supported by Fraser’s work on the cymbals and atmospheric arco from Downing and, in an interesting twist, slows to a dirge halfway through.
“Resist” also starts with a clarion call from the trumpet, this time accompanied by some martial snare and resolute plucks of the bass and goes out in a blaze of improvisational glory. “Coalesce,” as might be expected given the title, is gentler, with an almost post-bop feel.
The last diptych begins with a groan of arco bass introducing “Scrambled,” and the notional eggs simmer through the piece until it closes with another arco groan. “Over Easy” incorporates brief solos from Fraser and Downing and builds to a dizzying and highly satisfying climax to the recording as a whole.
As on all of the quartet’s recordings, the complexity of the compositions is infused with a sense of play and discovery. While all of the musicians naturally play with other groups, they never sound better than they do in this quartet. West, Downing, and Fraser know just how to bring Allemano’s compositions to life and give them the feel of standards from an alternative jazz universe. Diptychs demonstrates the inexhaustible potential of the chordless quartet and the boundless imagination of one of the best composers in jazz today.
I’m aware I am watching these films out of order, I still can’t find the first one on Criterion on Demand, but c’est la vie.
Maybe it’s because I always believe my friends, but I would never have let my friend drive onto the highway after hearing her vision. Wack. Her friends were not there for her.
I can’t help but feel like this whole series is like that text post about Apollo gifting people with Sight.
(Edit: THIS ONE!)
Also very wild to say “have you noticed anything ironic?” to a person that believes they’re going to die. That’s pretty twisted.
Also, sometimes, it’s not fate coming to get you, it’s a lack of kitchen safety and WHIMS knowledge. It all gets us in the end. Regardless, the tension in each death scene is so worth it.
I think that this twist on the original narrative was compelling but sometimes the actors couldn’t sell it. See: “See what? 😐 Pigeons? 🤨” and “😃 Tim! 😐” Other actors were putting their whole pussy into their performance to the point of near camp. But I think that horror movies like this make a person like myself easier to digest the horror.
You should watch this film for:
The yearly reminder that WHIMIS safety is indeed important
Edging. You get it if you have seen a single movie in this franchise.
The mid 00s dialogue, with gems like “Suck my junk, biatch!”
Similar titles:
The rest of the Final Destination Franchise (ig)
Escape Room (2019) (deals with a lot of planned horror, and asks the question ‘who will make it out alive?’)
JazzX5#399. Carn Davidson 9: “Suite 1985: III Wisely If Sincerely" [The History Of Us (Three Pines Records, 2021)] [Minipodcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz
JazzX5#399. Carn Davidson 9: “Suite 1985: III Wisely If Sincerely” [The History Of Us (Three Pines Records, 2021)] [Minipodcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz
JazzX5 es un minipodcast de HDO de la Factoría Tomajazz presentado, editado y producido por Pachi Tapiz.
JazzX5 comenzó su andadura el 24 de junio de 2019.
Todas las entregas de JazzX5 están disponibles en https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?cat=23120.
Central Park: the largest religious art work in New York City, Part 2. Series: God in NYC gardens
Central Park: the largest religious art work in New York City, Part 2. Series: God in NYC gardens
Central Park at night, looking from East to West. Photo: Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions
Central Park is “a specimen of God’s handiwork” that its designer Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) said would heal “the hundreds of thousands of tired workers” of their “vital exhaustion,” “nervous irritation” and “constitutional depressions.”
