EDN1024
Neon Quartet
Catch Me
- 1. Catch Me 3.19
- 2. Leaving Day 8.40
- 3. Cloak and Dagger 8.47
- 4. Villiers 4.11
- 5. Nepapanees 7.16
- 6. Passwords 7.30
- 7. Last of the Leaves 7.44
- 8. Bela Lugosi 5.49
- 9. Skookum 7.32
- 10. Torino 7.48
Credits and About
Stan Sulzmann tenor saxophone
Kit Downes piano
Jim Hart vibes
Tim Giles drums
Music by Stan Sulzmann (Catch Me, Leaving Day, Nepapanees & Skookum), Jim Hart (Cloak and Dagger & Last of the Leaves) and Kit Downes (Villers & Torino).
Recorded at Phoenix Sound, London on 29th & 30th April 2010 by Steve Lowe.
Mixed by Steve Lowe on 6th & 7th July at FX Your Space, London.
Mastered by Chris Lewis.
If those words suggest to you the spirited use of counterpoint and dynamic interplay, then listen to Kit Downes’ duet with Tim Giles on Stan Sulzmann’s Nepapanees. Did ‘chamber jazz’ ever sound that down-home or funky? Or listen to Jim Hart’s delightful, melancholy rubato ballad, The Last Of The Leaves, and hear how Hart’s vibes and Giles’ drums connect in such amazing, yet subtle patterns.
‘The Quartet’s use of counterpoint, its rhythmic flexibility, imaginative interplay and lyrical and inventive soloing combine improvisation with a scrupulous attention to detail without compromising the organic development of each performance’. – Irish Times
Videos
'Stan Sulzmann's latest collaboration boasts ensemble playing of the highest order'
The Observer
