The title of this album is an incredibly fitting one, for the pieces sound very much like mad dances. Dan Goble on various saxophones and Russell Hirshfield on piano take a listener on an aural roller coaster through dissonance, atonality, complex rhythms, and even occasional tenderness. Goble's saxophone technique is solid and smooth; he never breaks or cracks, whether he is playing with clarinet-like sweetness in pieces like "La follia nuova" from Albright's sonata or incredible agility in the scherzo from the same work. ...
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The title of this album is an incredibly fitting one, for the pieces sound very much like mad dances. Dan Goble on various saxophones and Russell Hirshfield on piano take a listener on an aural roller coaster through dissonance, atonality, complex rhythms, and even occasional tenderness. Goble's saxophone technique is solid and smooth; he never breaks or cracks, whether he is playing with clarinet-like sweetness in pieces like "La follia nuova" from Albright's sonata or incredible agility in the scherzo from the same work. Holy Roller begins rather like a film noir score, with a moody and smoky saxophone until the piano enters, creating a jazzy dialogue between the two instruments that is full of tricky rhythms that Goble and Hirshfield master. Particularly interesting in Skookum Suite is the first movement, which truly sounds like the saxophone and piano chasing or hotly pursuing something; the rest of the piece tends to sound rather the same, and its random, non-melodic character may not be to...
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