Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Bert Seager Title: Freedom of Assembly Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Buzz (Allegro) Original Release Date: 1/11/2000 Release Date: 1/11/2000 Album Type: Import Genres: Jazz, Pop Styles: Modern Postbebop, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 608917600926 |
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Pianist Bert Seager has done some label hopping since his debut in the mid-1980s. More importantly, he's done a lot of creative growing. As a result, his style on Freedom of Assembly is all over the spectrum. He might doll... more » |
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Amazon.com Pianist Bert Seager has done some label hopping since his debut in the mid-1980s. More importantly, he's done a lot of creative growing. As a result, his style on Freedom of Assembly is all over the spectrum. He might dollop a little Keith Jarrett-style expressionistic soar amid a twirling, concave Bill Evans-like episode. And then he might dip icily into Paul Bley's realm, which is where he fits most adroitly, taking abstractions toward romantic phrasing and alternately running all around drummer Nat Mugavero's rhythms with dancing, clean--if a tad skewered--harmonic lines. The trio Seager fields here is incredible, easily cooperative and downright bluesy on "I Got it Bad (And That Ain't Good)" and then woolly on "Bottom's Up." The tunes are largely a collective affair, with all three members credited as composers, and they stand distinctively in the crowded piano trio lineage. There's something here for everyone. --Andrew Bartlett Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsBoston Herald Review jan. 2000 01/15/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "BOSTON HERALD JANUARY 3, 2000BERT SEAGER, GEORGE DONCHEV, NAT MUGAVERO Freedom of Assembly (Buzz)At first, Boston-based pianist Bert Seager's first foray into free jazz seems like a radical departure for a player whose calling cards have long been been an eloquent lyricism, a full-bodied brand of swing and a telekinetic level of communication with his bandmates.Yet even a cursory listen to ``Freedom of Assembly'' reveals that all these values remain in place, and are, if anything, enhanced by the fact that Seager and long-time Boston trio-mates Donchev and Mugavero free-composed nine of these 11 numbers as they played them, with tape rolling, in the studio.The difficulty of creating coherent songs and performances under these conditions is hard to overstate _ and explains why it's so infrequently attempted. Moreover, the accessibility of the performances here - each has a beginning, middle and end, and there's little of the mere noisemaking that characterizes so many free-jazz outings - makes this trio's achievement all the greater. It makes ``Freedom of Assembly'' a free-jazz album for sharp-eared listeners who think they don't like free jazz. Kevin R.Convey"
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