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Dan Moretti, Once Through
Passing Place
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Avant Blue
2. Present Tense
3. Compared To That
4. Poydras Street
5. Monk?s Walk
6. Rhumba?s Not Home
7. Passing Place
8. Ten and 8
9. Virgo
10. You Said What?
11. Kooksville

CD Details

All Artists: Dan Moretti, Once Through
Title: Passing Place
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Whaling City Sound
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 8/9/2005
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Smooth Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 687606002821

Synopsis

Album Description

? Passing Place represents a musical snap shot in time ? The music has influences that range from Latin to swing to New Orleans, and funk. ? The songs are all original except for the Wayne Shorter composition "Virgo," which was done as a dedication to the Virgo?s in Dan Moretti?s life; his wife, daughter, mother and father Selling Points ? On "Passing Place" Dan Moretti and Once Through deliver a fresh, dynamic, vibrant performance with the synergy of a group that are all on the same wavelength. ? This highly listenable material crosses over in styles that will appeal to the jazz purist as well as the alternative college jazz audience with a range from the 60?s soul-jazz era and modern jazz to jam-band type selections.

CD Reviews

Useful in Conjunction With Moretti's Book

frankp93 | Danbury, Connecticut United States | 01/10/2010

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I bought Dan Moretti's "Passing Place" as supplemental listening to his Berklee Press book, "Producing And Mixing Contemporary Jazz". In the book Moretti generously provides individual instrument tracks from three compositions on the CD as exercises in recreating his final production mixes.

I think it's a useful way to go about teaching production listening skills in a genre that doesn't get the attention that more mainstream dance-oriented music does. I wanted to hear both the finished product in a portable format as well as the other tracks to get a sense of what Moretti, a sax player with a number of albums under his belt, was about.

Forgetting the book for a moment, "Passing Place" is an eclectic mix of commercial jazz-funk grooves, updated modal vamps, spiced with some New Orleans feels and what I'd call an atmospheric "ECM-sounding" tune thrown to round things out. The players are all competent, if not particularly original, and the tunes contain a bit too much literal repetition of themes for my taste.

But as a production sampler of the genre, "Passing Place" is useful, even (or especially) in places where I might prefer something different (For example, on the first track "Present tense", I'd mix the piano with much more presence). You can often learn more from what you disagree with by digging deeper into the why of it.

If you're interested in audio production in the contemporary jazz idiom the CD, along with the book make a worthwhile study.

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