Dvorak, Jim - Cherry Pickin’ CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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SLAM 294
Jim Dvorak: trumpet, voice
Paul Dunmall: tenor saxophone, saxello
Chris Mapp: bass
Mark Sanders: drums
Super great, free-bop. Recommended.
“American-born trumpeter Jim Dvorak has been a notable contributor to the UK scene since the 1970s, but hasn’t exactly been prolifically recorded. He’s best known as a free player, and this welcome quartet CD presents a kind of free jazz supergroup, with the majestic Paul Dunmall on reeds, effortlessly fluid Mark Sanders on drums and the bustling energy of Chris Mapp on bass. The set concludes with a 20-minute collective improvisation, with all four players responding to one another with the lightning reflexes and lightness of touch you might expect.” - Jon Turney
“Seven magnificent, Mingusesque tracks - Dvorak’s distinct compositional voice blended with intense, impassioned improvisation. Mapp and Sanders make for a powerful, highly dynamic section, and there’s tremendous interplay between trumpet and sax, twirling around one another in a horn double helix, for instance, on the Chaucer-channelling ‘Millers Tail’...the disc as a whole is superb.” - Jazzwise
“As good a quartet record as you'll hear all year. Dvorak's significantly underrated, perhaps because he moves so easily - too easily? - between jazz and free, perhaps because he has a Trickster's ability to hide his most profound thoughts behind japes... The trumpeter has a tight but nicely fat tone that's like no other around at the moment... Dunmall's playing great these days, positively magisterial but with the puckish, almost narrative delivery still intact, Sanders is world class and Mapp is more than merely reliable; he's the real article and a man to watch, his role here more than simply holding the centre.” - Brian Morton Jazz Journal
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