Madsen, Peter / Sphere Essence
Album: Sphere Essence   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Madsen, Peter   Added:Jun 2003
Label:Playscape Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2003-08-18 Pull Date: 2003-10-20 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Oct 19 Oct 12 Sep 14 Sep 7 Aug 24
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 17, 2003: Memory Select
Thelonious
4. Sep 05, 2003: Memory Select
Four in One
2. Oct 10, 2003: Memory Select
Evidence
5. Aug 19, 2003: No Cover, No Minimum
Trinkle Trinkle
3. Sep 10, 2003: press and release
Hornin-In

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-08-21

Solo piano takes on Monk tunes, ranging from straight takes to fast abstract weirdness (10). Shows off some adept traditional-jazz roots... Madsen is an agile and precise player with a lot of soul, doing more than just random hammering -- tracks like 9 show how he can mix faithful Monk lines and sporadic flourishes.

1- Cool little swing-step, mid/fast
2- Sparse and playfully wacky, lots of muffled "prepared piano"
3- Mid/fast; jumpy but mostly straight
4*- Rapid tumbling notes
5*- Slow and grand feel, a Gershwinesque improv
7- Mid/fast and pleasant, after tinkly prepared-piano intro
9*- Playful, lots of little flourishes
10*- Fast abstract tumbling
12- Slow, delicate, lovingly played

6,8,11 - "Monkaludes". Small, short pallettes of sound.

Track Listing
1. Thelonious   7. Criss Cross
2. Evidence   8. Monkalude S
3. Hornin-In   9. Trinkle Trinkle
4. Oska T   10. Four in One
5. Ugly Beauty   11. Monkalude M
6. Monkalude T   12. Feeling that Way Now