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CD Reviews: Brian Patneaude Quartet - “As We Know It”
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Posted by: editoron Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 01:37 PM |
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Glenn Astarita
CD-2007 WEPA Records
While many of the recognizable names in New York City’s jazz scene receive kudos from the consuming public, tenor saxophonist Brian Patneaude and his quartet receive honors as the top upstate NY jazz unit. Their workmanlike mode of attack resides within a progressive jazz ideology, although it’s not about bombast and flexing inordinate amounts of muscle. On the contrary, the quartet kicks into turbo mode on select works, but many of these pieces are constructed upon mellow themes and often accentuated by Patneaude’s mood-evoking sax lines.
Integrated among the softly-woven theme building exercises, the band sports a burly edge, partly due to Dave Payette’s Fender Rhodes-based progressions and e-guitarist George Muscatello’s breezy, dark-toned phrasings. On “Will You Be,” the quartet launches into a bustling full-speed-ahead groove, highlighted by the soloists’ attractive harmonic frameworks. Then in various regions of sound, Patneaude delves into solemn balladry, yet helps raise the pitch during up-tempo funk-drenched vamps and thrusting rhythmic structures. Alternatively, they don’t reinvent the wheel via any abstruse underlying agenda. It’s more about high-caliber jazz performed with gusto, determination and a persuasive vibe that provides the Midas touch. – Glenn Astarita
Additional information, visit: www.brianpatneaude.com
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