Rich West - Heavenly Breakfast (2006) {pfMentum}
Rich West - Heavenly Breakfast (2006) {pfMentum}
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© 2006 pfMentum | CD035
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz
For Heavenly Breakfast, drummer Rich West decided to work again with a quintet, but retained only the services of trumpeter Bruce Friedman from the group that appeared on Bedouin Hornbook. Ex-Motor Totemist Guild Lynn Johnston (sax and clarinets) completes the small yet agile horn section; electric bassist Dan Krimm replaces Scot Ray and his tuba; finally, the electric guitar is out and the electric piano in, here performed by Emily Beezhold. Although the group on Bedouin Hornbook did a fine job at going through West's whimsical charts, this lineup is much better at filling them in and twisting them slightly out of shape.
The opening track, "Bloomsday" is hands-down the best track on the album. It is raucous, driving, and surprisingly tight despite its 11 minutes. West uses simple heads that he transforms in clever ways over funky grooves interspersed with episodes of structured improvisations. The piece evokes the Frank Zappa of Waka/Jawaka with a touch of George Lewis. None of the other six pieces on the album will reach that level of excitement again, but they still have plenty to offer. "Le Petomane" contains some quirky heads, while "Death Pledge" and "A Performer's Objective Is to Put Everyone to Sleep" feature strong, graphic score-based group improvising. Nevertheless, the album would have lost its momentum if it weren't for the concluding piece, "Glenn's Conducting." The longest number at 18 minutes, it provides another highlight, although not in the same register as "Bloomsday." After a long introductory dirge by West (on accordion), Krimm, and bubbling electronics than might be coming from Beezhold's Korg MS2000, the group launches in a series of cut-and-paste sections of tutti lines and subgroup form improvisations. The piece is fractured, restless, but certainly eventful and entertaining, and West succeeds in convincing the listener that the whole holds better together than its parts could lead you to believe. Heavenly Breakfast is one of the nice avant-jazz surprises to come out of the West Coast in 2006. Recommended.
Bio:
Rich West is a drummer, composer, french hornist, bookseller, and writer living in the L.A. area. Interest in playing music blamed on the L.A. punk scene of the late 70s, Zubin Mehta conducting Mahler, and Marxism (both branches). Studied composition, french horn, percussion, and drumset in college while playing in such bands as Camper van Beethoven and the Wrestling Worms. Recent highlights: Week-long Eugene Chadbourne festival in Nancy, France. Joined forces with the likes of Oliver Lake and Jimmy Carl Black, amongst others; Dottie Grossman/Michael Vlatkovich are letting him play with them; Steuart Liebig duetting. Produced Eugene Chadbourne's cd The Hills Have Jazz and Dan Clucas' Exile. Two recorded releases of his own music are on the pfMENTUM label: Heavenly Breakfast, a mixture of compositions and improvisations based on graphic notation; and Bedouin Hornbook, grooves, pieces, and improvisation. Dabbles in film music and music for dance. Did the soundtrack for The Watershed by Mary Trunk in 2004. His present band, Homunculus, will release a cd on the pfMENTUM label sometime in the near future, whatever that means. Collaboration with Thailand's Eric Curkendall on a poetry/music project (each doing both), of which one could dance, meditate, or argue over.
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Personnel: Rich West, drums, accordion, pieces; Dan Krimm, electric bass; Bruce Friedman, trumpet; Emily Beezhold, electric piano, korg ms2000; Lynn Johnston, saxophones, clarinets.
tracklist:
01. Bloomsday
02. A Performer's Objective Is to Put Everyone to Sleep
03. You Never Want to Tell People You're a Scent
04. Le Petomane
05. Detritus or Treasures
06. Death Pledge
07. Glenn's Conducting
Rich West - Heavenly Breakfast (2006) {pfMentum}
Rich West - Heavenly Breakfast (2006) {pfMentum}
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