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Anthony Shadduck
Debut is the first solo release from Anthony Shadduck who has performed with Joe Biaza, Emily Hay, I Heart Lung, Create (!) and many others.
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Alex Sadnik: Flight
by Jeff Schwartz
What is new to say through Charlie Parker's music? On Flight Alex Sadnik looks for answers with two different bands. On the first side of the LP, his alto fronts a quintet with violin, pedal steel guitar, bass,and drums, but this is not a Bob Wills or Bill Frisell pastiche. The opening track, Donna Lee," stretches and compresses Parker's speedy contrafact of Indiana" into a medium waltz. Both Sadnik's alto tone and the metric liberties taken with ...
read moreThe Anthony Shadduck Quartet: Debut
by Ian Patterson
An acoustic bass, an acoustic drum and clarinet may bring to mind the small combos of Benny Goodman or Buddy DeFranco, but when you add guitarist Nels Cline to the equation (armed with his box of electronics to boot) then you can be sure that the cat will go tearing out of the room. Indeed, from the beginning of The Stars of Stage, Screen and Radiology, with its anguished, animal-like screeches from clarinet and the rapid, angular guitar lines, it ...
read more"Amplification and strong rock elements figure prominently into the music and the album has a proggish feel similar to some of Cline’s projects for Crytpogramphone. Dynamic fluctuations from stentorian to soft, so common to this style of improv, also factor in, but Shadduck varies the framework with some fresh facades and close attention to the spatial relationships of the instruments..
Primary Instrument
Bass, acoustic
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson