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Daniel Schenker Quartet: Soundlines
by Jack Bowers
Swiss-born trumpeter Daniel Schenker and his quartet, who earned high marks from this reviewer for an earlier album, Iridium (Brambus, 2003), are back for another go around, this time with guest saxophonist Chris Cheek from New York City making it a quintet. The performance, taped live in October '04 at Zurich's Moods nightclub, is as admirable as before, the choice of music somewhat less so.
Schenker wrote six of the eight numbers (there's one holdover from Iridium, the ballad Jedesmal ...
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by Jack Bowers
More inspired jazz from overseas. It's musicians like Daniel Schenker and albums like Iridium that make this country's so-called jazz polls so patently ludicrous. Technically and creatively, Schenker is on a par with many of the trumpeters whose names regularly appear at or near the top surveys conducted by critics or laymen and published in our leading jazz magazines. The downside is that Schenker and his companions make their home in Switzerland, which is somewhat removed from New York City ...
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