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Mark Helias' Open Loose
Verbs of Will
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Detonation
2. Relic
3. How 'Bout It
4. King Judas
5. AKA
6. Anagram
7. Mistral Angel
8. Give Up The Ghost
9. Let's Roll One
10. The White Line
11. Hegemony
12. Ekman

CD Details

All Artists: Mark Helias' Open Loose
Title: Verbs of Will
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Radio Legs
Original Release Date: 7/1/2003
Release Date: 7/1/2003
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest
Style: Avant Garde & Free Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 783707729329

Synopsis

Album Description

Twelve new Mark Helias compositions performed by Tom Rainey - drums, Tony Malaby - Tenor Saxophone and Mark Helias - bass. Having worked together for more than four years the group has developed an improvisational flexibility which allows it to develop ideas as a unit. The recording was done at the end of a 17 day West Coast Tour in November 2000. It is an excellent representation of a working band conjoining the disciplines of composition, interpretation and improvisation.

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CD Reviews

Setting a New Standard for Disciplined Improvisation

John Russon | Toronto, ON Canada | 12/27/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the newest (as of December 2004) CD by Mark Helias's "Open Loose" group. This is a trio that has as big a sound as the average septet. The three players--Helias on bass, Tony Malaby on sax and Tom Rainey on drums--are all outstanding, and they are extremely tight as a group. This is not the average "blowing over changes" kind of jazz, but complex, multi-layered improvisation that may cue off a melody, a bass pattern, or any other musical structure. It is simultaneously free and extremely disciplined. The connected trio of tunes "Relic-How 'Bout It-King Judas" makes an especially potent triptych, and is an excellent introduction to the range and power of this trio's sound. I recommend this to anyone interested in modern jazz."