Recordings
Jazz Weekly Review
Not totally sure what to make of this review. Is it positive or something else? Anyhow, I’m happy to have the review regardless. Read it here.
Not totally sure what to make of this review. Is it positive or something else? Anyhow, I’m happy to have the review regardless. Read it here.
A great new review of Subjects and Complements here. Scroll down a bit to get to the text. A short excerpt: “Subjects and Complements was issued in November of this year and the music has posited itself in my ears ever since. The subtlety of the arrangements, the mature melodies, and Read more…
Robert Silverstein has very kindly put together a nice feature article/interview about Subjects and Complements on his site, Music Web Express 3000. You can read it here.
A great review of Subjects and Complements by Esther Callens. from the Birmingham Times, here.
Another review in from the bass player website No Treble. Check it out here.
Got a nice little mention from emusic.com reviewer/writer Dave Sumner, reprinted here: “Justin Morell, Dectet: Subjects and Complements: A gorgeous recording that behaves with a third-stream elegance. A jazz album that likes to shoot the breeze about classical music. And though it’s a sizable group on the bandstand, the numbers Read more…
This review just posted on the Pittsburgh Tribune website. Reprint here: Justin Morell Dectet (Sonic Frenzy) From a set of five fugues to familiar-feeling pieces that coast along in classic big-band fashion, the Justin Morell Dectet offers a clever look at large-ensemble music on “Subjects and Complements.” Besides providing all Read more…
The latest installment of youtube videos from the Subjects and Complements recording sessions: LORAC. This excerpt starts with the opening of the piece and plays up to the start of the solo section (which, on the CD, features John Daversa and Phil O’Connor). I have two more extended excerpts, both Read more…
Reviews are beginning to post for the upcoming Subjects and Complements. Here’s one review from the online magazine Midwest Record. More to come.