It's Mostly Residual

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共12首歌曲

艺人: Cuong Vu
语种: 英语
厂牌: Intoxicate
发行时间: 2005年01月01日
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by Dave Lynch

Walk the Line might have been an Academy Award-winning biopic about Johnny Cash released in 2005, but nobody in the world of art and entertainment walked the line more skillfully that year than trumpeter/bandleader Cuong Vu on his It's Mostly Residual CD. OK, drawing parallels between a film about a country music icon and a CD by this phenomenal trumpeter may be stretching things a bit. But It's Mostly Residual unquestionably has a widescreen cinematic quality, and the album also showcases Vu and his bandmates carefully treading a path between two forms of jazz whose adherents (audiences and musicians) don't often mingle. Can contemporary (Pat Metheny, Mark Isham) and avant (Chris Speed's yeah NO, Dave Douglas' Sanctuary) jazz find a place to coalesce? Perhaps Cuong Vu, whose widest audience exposure in the mid-2000s is probably through his membership in the Pat Metheny Group, is the man to make it happen. Vu emerged in the 1990s as one of the most distinctive voices on the so-called New York downtown scene, with a stronger embrace of electronic soundscapes than many of his peers. And yet, Vu has chops to burn when he sticks his unadorned acoustic horn in your ear, and it's this dichotomy that helps to make his music so compelling. It's Mostly Residual often places the two sides of Vu in startlingly abrupt juxtapositions; at other times those two sides are organically melded and sonically integrated, demonstrating both Vu's acumen as composer and arranger and the in-the-moment improvising skills of his extraordinary band. ... Read More...

It's Mostly Residual

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