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Ben Goldberg Quintet: The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact

Read "The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact" reviewed by Tom Greenland

by Tom Greenland
May 11, 2006

Steve Lacy may no longer be here, but he's “hear" these days, a musical spirit living on in many facets and forms. Clarinetist Ben Goldberg's quintet has recorded a loving tribute to Lacy in The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact, a collection of poignant vignettes, interpretations and revitalizations.

Goldberg, known for his progressive take on klezmer and for various projects that mix Northern Californian flavoring with a downtown NYC avant-jazz sensibility, gathered vocalist/violinist Carla Kihlstedt (from the Tin ...

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Ben Goldberg Quintet: The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact

Read "The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
March 8, 2006

Ben Goldberg returns after a seven-year absence from recording with one for Steve Lacy. Goldberg wrote the music in 2004 when he came to know that the soprano saxophonist had cancer. The album was recorded three days after Lacy died.

Lacy's “Blinks is in a state of constant flux. Goldberg's clarinet breaks up the lines, but the piece becomes volatile and churns relentlessly when violinist Carla Kihlstedt bows in. With bassist Devin Hoff and drummer Ches Smith roiling beneath, this ...

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Ben Goldberg Quintet - The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact (2006)

Source: Something Else!
October 17, 2011

By Mark Saleski Too bad that the clarinet was the instrument guys were embarrassed to be stuck with in band. None of those kids ever got to hear what musicians like Steve Lacy (yes, I know, soprano sax. Close enough), Don Byron or Ben Goldberg could do with it. Goldberg, a member of the group Tin Hat (formerly the Tin Hat Trio, they of off-kilter chamberisms and surprising Tom Waits guest vocals), brings Tin Hat violinist Carla Kihlstedt together with ...
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