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Thirsty Ear has consciously positioned itself at a median point between popular groove-based musics and exploratory jazz. On this release DJ Wally has at his disposal music played by some of the cream of free jazz players, including Matthew Shipp, David S. Ware and William Parker. Nothing Stays The Same is composed of a number of medium length pieces, four or five minutes long, interspersed with shorter pieces, the briefest of which spans a mere 23 seconds.

Peter Gordon’s rather gorgeous, breathy flute threads its way through synth washes which soon fade out, leaving the flute to pirouette against silence. “A Day In The Life” brings on the beats and then walks them all over the place. The organ stabs, David Ware’s sax and Gordon’s flute combine together then pause briefly for a short beatless section of pouring rain mingled with vibes, then the beat kicks in again, underpinned by William Parker’s warm, on-the-one bass. There’s a strong sense of a narrative musical portrait being painted in sound by DJ Wally.

By the fourth track, "Thirsty Thrills," it’s clear that one of DJ Wally’s methods is to separate out the melodic kernels of the players’ solos and deploy them into musical collages. This technique is concerned with creating fluent compositions and moods, rather than exploring the possibilities of rupture and surprise, as exemplified by many of the original sample-heavy hip-hop classics. Indeed, there is a precedent for this in jazz production in some of Teo Macero’s early 1970s work with Miles Davis.

Given the combative, driving nature of the free jazz which comprises part of Thirsty Ear’s output, it would be interesting to hear a merging of the twin poles of groove and free jazz, challenging though such a prospect would be to achieve. The eighth track, “Shipp Solo (Interlude),” illustrates t.......
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DJ Wally czyli Keef DeStefano lubuje się w łączeniu bitów ze swingującym jazzem. "Nothing Stays The Same" to downtempo pierwszej jakości z gościnnym udziałem znakomitych jazzmanów:

Guillermo E. Brown: drums

Daniel Carter: reeds

Keef Destefano: samples

Peter Gordon: acoustic and electric flute

Khan Jamal: vibes

William Parker: bass

Matthew Shipp: piano

David S. Ware: sax

Recenzja z Allaboutjazz.com:

Thirsty Ear has consciously positioned itself at a median point between popular groove-based musics and exploratory jazz. On this release DJ Wally has at his disposal music played by some of the cream of free jazz players, including Matthew Shipp, David S. Ware and William Parker. Nothing Stays The Same is composed of a number of medium length pieces, four or five minutes long, interspersed with shorter pieces, the briefest of which spans a mere 23 seconds.

Peter Gordon’s rather gorgeous, breathy flute threads its way through synth washes which soon fade out, leaving the flute to pirouette against silence. “A Day In The Life” brings on the beats and then walks them all over the place. The organ stabs, David Ware’s sax and Gordon’s flute combine together then pause briefly for a short beatless section of pouring rain mingled with vibes, then the beat kicks in again, underpinned by William Parker’s warm, on-the-one bass. There’s a strong sense of a narrative musical portrait being painted in sound by DJ Wally.

By the fourth track, "Thirsty Thrills," it’s clear that one of DJ Wally’s methods is to separate out the melodic kernels of the players’ solos and deploy them into musical collages. This technique is concerned with creating fluent compositions and moods, rather than exploring the possibilities of rupture and surprise, as exemplified.......
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