Combs, Cory Trio / Valencia
| Album: | Valencia | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Combs, Cory Trio | Added: | Apr 2006 | |
| Label: | Evander Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2006-06-11 | Pull Date: | 2006-08-13 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Jul 30 | Jul 23 | Jul 9 | Jul 2 | Jun 25 | Jun 18 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 28, 2006: | Memory Select
Heavy |
4. | Jun 30, 2006: | Memory Select
Tiny Insects |
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| 2. | Jul 21, 2006: | Memory Select
1974 |
5. | Jun 23, 2006: | Memory Select
Money In Your Pocket And A Room With A View |
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| 3. | Jul 07, 2006: | Memory Select
Foreign Postmark |
6. | Jun 13, 2006: | Radio Of Imagination
Money In Your Pocket And A Room With A View |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2006-06-11
Reviewed 2006-06-11
Creative but accessible, with some melodic work (rocker-turned-jazzster kinds of pieces) but also squirrely free jazz and other surprises. Trio setting, led by local bassist Combs who produces some cool sounds on fretless. Lead voice is sax/clarinet; drums by John Hollenbeck (check out his hyper-modern Claudia Quintet, which isn't that dissimilar from this stuff). Lots of creative elements here, but it's not so abstract as to turn off non-converts.
1- Easy, loping feel, hyper drums. Strong groove later.
2- Slow, romantic
3- Fast, quiet free scribbles
4- Lurking, slow; nice melody later. Free clatter near the end.
5- Slow, mourning. Bowed bass.
6- Mid/fast, "up," mild Klezmer influence
7- Spare, lonely sax. Chaotic and disjoint later.
8- Turn o'century feel; fast and mellow/romantic
9- Prickly avant/fast, spare feel.
10- Bass solo: Combs' 5-yr-old niece describes a dream, and his bass tracks her words. (For more experiments of instruments mimicking speech patterns, see Jason Moran's "The Bandwagon.")
11- Sad carnival sound, with melodica
12- Weird off-kilter wanderings, a slow babble
13- Spry, popping. Some free-jazz madness
14- Slow chamber feel
15- Gently happy. Briefly crazy, later.
16- Darkly abstract; briefly fast later
17- Slow chimes of doom
1- Easy, loping feel, hyper drums. Strong groove later.
2- Slow, romantic
3- Fast, quiet free scribbles
4- Lurking, slow; nice melody later. Free clatter near the end.
5- Slow, mourning. Bowed bass.
6- Mid/fast, "up," mild Klezmer influence
7- Spare, lonely sax. Chaotic and disjoint later.
8- Turn o'century feel; fast and mellow/romantic
9- Prickly avant/fast, spare feel.
10- Bass solo: Combs' 5-yr-old niece describes a dream, and his bass tracks her words. (For more experiments of instruments mimicking speech patterns, see Jason Moran's "The Bandwagon.")
11- Sad carnival sound, with melodica
12- Weird off-kilter wanderings, a slow babble
13- Spry, popping. Some free-jazz madness
14- Slow chamber feel
15- Gently happy. Briefly crazy, later.
16- Darkly abstract; briefly fast later
17- Slow chimes of doom
Track Listing