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Matt Penman - Flipside '1998

Flipside
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Album name Flipside
Country
Date 1998
GenreJazz
Play time 01:03:32
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 338 mb
PriceDownload $2.95
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Tracks list

Tracklist

01. The Magic Beans
02. Numero 6
03. Stretch
04. The Muses
05. Elder Days
06. Nude
07. Big Deal
08. High Times

New York City based Flipside is a multinational quartet featuring New Zealanders
Matt Penman (bass), Greg Tuohey (guitar), Irish drummer Darren Beckett and
French saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh. Flipside is about strong grooves, sensitive
group interplay and adequate breathing room for the soloists as in Matt
Penman’s composition, “The Magic Beans”. Here, Jerome Sabbagh
leads the charge with his fluent, breezy Soprano Sax phrasing and serves as the
traffic cop through meticulously developed thematic statements. Greg
Tuohey’s warm, animated guitar choruses underscore Jerome
Sabbagh’s smooth, eloquent tenor sax work on Sabbagh’s
“Numero 6”.

Positive vibes abound as Flipside convey a modern demeanor yet maintain and
artfully display traditional jazz concepts as in Greg Tuohey’s
“Stretch”. On this piece, the boys jazz it up some, featuring the
polyrhytmic drumming of Darren Beckett alongside Matt Penman’s rapidly
walking bass line. Greg Tuohey’s “Nude” is a somber ballad as
Tuohey performs passionately with nicely developed chord voicings and precise,
clear-toned single note runs. “Nude” features sonorous yet
understated bass lines from Penman who negotiates the common ground, which
boasts striking melodies and brilliant tonal colors. Penman’s “High
Times” is up-tempo and supported by Beckett’s firm backbeat and
intermittent doses of power drumming counterbalancing Sabbagh’s lyrical
and spirited tenor sax choruses.

Part of Flipside’s magic lies within compositions constructed around
memorable hooks and themes, which effectively counter the imaginative soloing
and prevailing sense of space. A surprisingly mature debut effort featuring
solid, fertile material and superb craftsmanship.

Matt Penman


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