Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet - Intents and Purposes

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:30
Size: 123,0 MB
Art: Front

(7:57)  1. Black Market
(7:35)  2. Butterfly
(8:00)  3. Joyous Lake
(4:56)  4. Resolution
(8:30)  5. Medieval Overture
(5:53)  6. Red Baron
(4:45)  7. Low-Lee-Tah
(5:50)  8. There Comes A Time

Mr. Abbasi succeeded in making some fairly cerebral intricacies feel intuitive and touched by a higher source. ~ The New York Times

An amazing guitarist...unique and beautiful music and best of all very original...I'm really impressed. ~ Pat Metheny

One of jazz's most intriguing journeys - Abbasi takes a bold step in resisting any stereotyping. ~ JazzTimes

In his hands, the globe's music feels relentlessly new and progressive. ~ LA Times

If you're like me, one of the things that irritates you about 1970s-era jazz-rock fusion is the frequent overproduction, which often came across as an attempt to gussy up the sonics while at the same time dumbing-down the music itself. For this fascinating and brilliant album, guitarist Rez Abbasi takes a handful of classics of the fusion genre and strips away all that stuff, performing them with an acoustic quartet (guitar, vibes, bass, drums) and revealing several of them (notably Weather Report's 'Black Market' and Herbie Hancock's 'Butterfly') to have quite a bit more substance than we might have suspected at the time. On a few tracks Abbasi plays a fretless guitar, which adds a strange and kind of nifty timbral dimension to the group s already unique sound. A must for all jazz collections. ~ Rick Anderson

In his hands, the globe's music feels relentlessly new and progressive. ~ LA Times 

~ Editorial Reviews 

http://www.amazon.com/Intents-Purposes-Rez-Abbasi/dp/B00LFMZZXY

Personnel:  Rez Abbasi (Guitar);  Bill Ware (Vibraphone);  Stephan Crump (Bass);  Eric McPherson (Drums).

Intents and Purposes

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