Simpatico

Artist: The Vandermark 5 Label: Atavistic Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 735286110722 EAN: 0735286110722 ASIN: B00000IR6U Release Date: 1999-06-08

Listmania:

1. Anti-Smooth Jazz: Yikes! More Saxophonists! Part III
2. Chicago Improvisers You Should Know
3. Avant Jazz/Improv (of recent times)
4. some great jazz

Tracks:

1. Vent
2. Fact And Fiction
3. Full Deck
4. Anywhere Else
5. Sthlm
6. Cover To Cover
7. Point Blank
8. Encino

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2. Free Jazz Classics, Vols. 3 & 4
3. Acoustic Machine
4. Target or Flag
5. Single Piece Flow

Customer Reviews:

My Favorite V5 CD.......2002-11-01

The V5 is a relatively stable ensemble of Chicago improvisers, including the always impressive Jeb Bishop on trombone and guitar. Also impressive is Dave Rempis, who's style, while influenced by the post-Aylerisms of Vandermark and the Europeans, is more lyrical...melodically based, almost like an update of Lee Konitz. The music on this V5 album ranges from all-out free blowing, through the sort of impressionistic slow avant-garde music that seems to have as much to do with the European serialists as it does with jazz, to downright funky jazz and blues numbers...sometimes with a bit of a punk edge. The latter is particularly evident on the tracks that feature Bishop on
noisy, Hendricks-meets-Sonny-Sharrock-styled guitar licks.

Vandermark's influence on the renewal of the Chicago free improvised scene cannot be overstated. This, plus the MacArthur grant he recieved has made him a figure of some stature, but has also made him a punching bag for other, less outwardly successful musicians here in Chitown and throughout the country. While I am really not sure that I feel Vandermark deserves to be singled out as a genius when musicians like Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman and Sam Rivers have been largely ignored by the funding community, Vandermark is an undoubtedly gifted improviser. And he has done much to extend the interest in free improvising past the traditional boundaries of jazz. His fans include many 20-something punks and alternative music types. This can only be healthy for a style of music that, just a few years ago, was considered completely dead. And I, coming from the perspective of a 70's free improviser, can only thank him. This renewal of out music is only a good thing for all of us. (Now if only more of us can find our own style and not mimic Ken or John Zorn, then we will have it made!)

Quality!.......2001-03-08

But what about this title? Yes, its got a noir quality! Yes, there is a rock element to the writing and playing. And yes, its a great session. I have read many reviews of V5 sets that seem to favor one over another and for me the quality is so consistantly high, its scary.

I recommend getting any V5. After that you'll want them all.

once..........2000-04-14

The Vandermark 5 - Simpatico.......2000-01-12

Music CD:

1. Footpath Cafe ~ Maynard Ferguson
2. John Coltrane Quintet with Eric Dolphy ~ John Coltrane Quintet
3. Watershed ~ Henry Hey Trio
4. Romance Latino, Vol. 1 ~ Lisa Ono
5. Now Playing: A Night at the Movies/Up in Erroll's Room ~ Erroll Garner
6. A Handful of Stars ~ Dave McKenna
7. Common Man ~ Pete Zimmer Quintet
8. Polar AC ~ Freddie Hubbard
9. Weaver of Dreams ~ Peter Guidi
10. Cotton Picker's Scat: 1930 ~ McKinney's Cotton Pickers

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Superb ~ Superb

Flowers of Evil ~ Mountain

Zwei ~ Turing Machine

Give Blood ~ Brakes

Mysterium ~ Evensong

Maximum Christina Aguilera ~ Christina Aguilera

Make Progress

Noir Original Soundtrack 1 ~ Yuki Kajiura (composer)

Frank Real ~ Frank Real

Dangerous Dance, Vol. 1 ~ Kyper