Way Out East (Hybr) [Hybrid SACD - DSD]

Wayne Horvitz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Label: Songlines
• ASIN: B000FI904O
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,186 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A kind of Pacific Northwest John Zorn in his more sedate moods, August 16, 2006

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Way Out East (Hybr) (Audio CD)

The intersection of chamber music, jazz, and New Music often produces wonderful listening experiences. One thinks, for example, of Peter Garland, Sylvie Courvoisier, Bang on a Can, and Stuart Dempster.

I really wanted to like this music, but I confess I'm having trouble accessing its vibe. Wayne Horvitz, its organizer and leader, describes this as chamber music that just happens to contain improvisation.

I'm OK with that description. I'm not altogether OK with what happens in the actual execution. Yes, it has its moments of crystalline beauty. Yes, there's a lot of killer precision playing. Yes, there's a kind of attractive angularity. But I have to say it seems slightly stilted.

Then again, maybe that's what Horvitz and co. are going for: highly arranged, classically oriented, jazz-tinged chamber music for the new century. One could do worse. And I have to say, it's growing on me, willy-nilly. One day I may actually thoroughly enjoy it, rather than just appreciating it; I certainly hope so.

Absolutely worth checking out, especially if you have proclivities toward this sort of thing. ****1/2.

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding chamber-jazz group, February 8, 2010

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Yersin USA (Great Falls, Potomac) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Way Out East (Hybr) (Audio CD)

Listening to this for the second time in two days, I think it is among Horvitz's finest recordings. (I'm also a big fan of "Sweeter than the Day" and "From a Window."
The "Gravitas Quartet" explores the unusual combination of piano-trumpet-cello-bassoon with grace and aplomb. The bassoon is a marvelous instrument for jazz composed improvisations--I'm glad to hear more and more of it.