A Momentary Lapse
A Momentary Lapse
Brooklyn, NY
| A Momentary LapseiTunes Artist's PageiTunes Album Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Song Title | Time | Price | |
| 1. | The Schwartzes | 10:51 | |
| 2. | Salal | 05:48 | $0.99 |
| 3. | Vaxjo Kollektiv | 09:06 | $0.99 |
| 4. | Copalis | 07:15 | $0.99 |
| 5. | Geek's Revenge | 04:38 | $0.99 |
| 6. | Some Powerful Women - Why | 10:06 | |
| 7. | Anniversary of a Non-Marriage | 04:37 | $0.99 |
| 8. | Guanajuato | 05:07 | $0.99 |
| 9. | Keep the Fool | 04:45 | $0.99 |
Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Chris Speed, Briggan Krauss, Eyvind Kang, Andrew Drury. What more is there to say? A stellar group of avant-jazz notables from New York’s downtown plays Drury’s intricate music with volcanic intensity. A Momentary Lapse is Andrew Drury’s breakthrough CD, putting him on the map as a virtuosic drummer with uncommon compositional vision and a knack for creating groups that have a serious vibe.
The nine compositions unselfconsciously meld jazz, rock, and chamber idioms and are animated by Drury’s drum-influenced sense of melody, form, and energy. Stemming from the avant-garde jazz tradition with elements of the AACM, Stravinsky, and Coltrane serving as reference points, A Momentary Lapse should appeal to listeners interested in creative, acoustic composition and improvisation played with arch intelligence and cataclysmic exuberance.
Exceptionally well recorded, A Momentary Lapse provides a fascinating glimpse of Myra Melford as a sideperson in a larger group context than is customary for her. She and Dresser shine throughout, making this disk a must-have for fans of their music.
CKUT: Voted Top 20 best for 2003 in Jazz Amuck category
PARISTRANSATLANTIC
As a former student of Edward Blackwell, you'd expect [Drury] to swing hard and fast, and you won't be disappointed; even more impressive are his composition chops -- these nine tracks run the gamut from hard-driving, almost funky, binary ("The Schwartzes") via tight Eastern European-inflected canons ("Växjö Kollektiv") and sleek balladry ("Copalis") to metrically fiendish unisons ("Anniversary of a Non-Marriage"). . . Drury has assembled one hell of a band. . . Kang and Melford are on superb form throughout, both revealing prodigious techniqe and an encyclopaedic knowledge of their instruments, while Krauss and Speed complement each other beautifully. . . Drury's charts wisely leave enough space for everyone to stretch out, but nonetheless retain their distinctive identity. John Zorn must be kicking himself he didn't snaffle this one up for Tzadik.- Dan Warburton
FEVER PITCH
(Has a) quality of transcendence. Andrew's composition skills aren't quite like anything else I have ever heard...and I don't say that very often. - Kurt Stein
