Forever Real

Fonda/Stevens Group, the
482 Music
Jazz | Mar 2005

Reviews

Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-04-16
Between post-bop and free jazz, sticking to the jazz camp but without many boundaries. Tracks vary between post-bop compositions and heavily free material.

Fonda and Stevens play bass and piano. The lead voice is Herb Robertson's trumpet, which provides plenty of deft twirling. There's no other horn -- no saxophone, specifically -- which seems to open up- the space quite a bit. Very enjoyable and often relaxing.

1- Slow, relaxed, and pretty
2- The avant-garde track, restrained and popping
3- Mid/fast minor key, very '60s vein of post-bop
4- Quiet, slow, with serious piano
5- Percolating, fairly fast but quiet, w/"human beat-box"
6- Dusky minor-key piano jazz, retro '60s feel
7- Brash and a bit funky, with some poetry

Recent airplay

Relentlessness
Lost and FoundJan 10, 2009
The Call
Memory SelectJun 17, 2005
The Stalker
Memory SelectJun 10, 2005
Relentlessness
Memory SelectMay 27, 2005
The Call
Memory SelectMay 20, 2005
The Call

Charting

2005-04-17 — 2005-06-19 Jazz
Week EndingAirplays
Jun 19 1
Jun 12 1
May 29 1
May 22 1
May 15 3
May 1 1
Apr 24 2

Track listing

1. Forever Real
2. From the Source
3. The Stalker
4. A Question of Love
5. Relentlessness
6. The Call
7. Cotton