Useful Music Wahbo Records
Editor’s
Choice,
Best of 2005 - New Discoveries
- John Kelman, All
About
Jazz.com
Top Ten Best Albums Of 2005
- Nick Lea, Jazz
Views.uk
Publisher's Top Picks for 2005 - Honorable Mention
- Michael Ricci,
publisher, All
About Jazz.com
“A prediction for the coming year
(or
two) - you will soon know the name of local pianist, Jeff
Baumeister”
- Ken Weiss,
Philadelphia Correspondent, Cadence Magazine
Congratulations to you and your saxophonist!
Your
music is world-class.
- Mark C.
Gridley (author of Jazz Styles: History And Analysis, Prentice
Hall)
“Baumeister is completely original, with a fresh take on
free/avant garde jazz that is
challenging yet eminently listenable
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Useful Music Wahbo Records
Editor’s
Choice,
Best of 2005 - New Discoveries
- John Kelman, All
About
Jazz.com
Top Ten Best Albums Of 2005
- Nick Lea, Jazz
Views.uk
Publisher's Top Picks for 2005 - Honorable Mention
- Michael Ricci,
publisher, All
About Jazz.com
“A prediction for the coming year
(or
two) - you will soon know the name of local pianist, Jeff
Baumeister”
- Ken Weiss,
Philadelphia Correspondent, Cadence Magazine
Congratulations to you and your saxophonist!
Your
music is world-class.
- Mark C.
Gridley (author of Jazz Styles: History And Analysis, Prentice
Hall)
“Baumeister is completely original, with a fresh take on
free/avant garde jazz that is
challenging yet eminently listenable.
An example of the
terrific music coming out of
Philadelphia's thriving jazz scene.”
- Tony Rogers, Jazz CD Reviews.com
“Completely captivating and with a certain aesthetic
connection to classic ECM piano
recordings, Useful Music has all the potential to be a
classic in its own right.
Baumeister’s writing, while evoking its deceptively gentle
veneer, is more structurally rich
than its antecedents, making it a completely modern take on
an established aesthetic.
-
John Kelman, All About Jazz.com
“The organic lucidity that animates each of Baumeister's
composition is the real treasure of
Useful Music and a compelling reason to return to this
album again and
again”
- Dimitry Ekshtut, Jazz Improv Magazine
“Useful Music is moody, detailed, and unique. The
quartet weaves in and out of
changes with subtlety and grace on this spectacular set of
originals. Highly
recommended.”
- Andrew Ciccone, Sound of Market
Street
“This is my favorite sort of jazz approach,
really smart
and burning.”
- John
Anthony, audio engineer, Maja Audio Group
“While not recommended for short attention spans, the
session is a refined study of high -
end improvisation - full of quiet but fiery interplay, cerebral and
engaging. Pianist Jeff
Baumeister's new CD could just as easily be found amid the
hushed discs of the Munich-
based ECM label.”
- Karl
Stark, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Improvised music that has the lyricism of the best composed
music of the last century -
wonderfully mysterious - a beautiful, clear recorded sound,
live
and personal.”
-
David Demsey, saxophonist, Coordinator of Jazz Studies,
William Paterson University
“Useful Music is an album that combines the cerebral
to the hot playing in
colorful,
modern and high aesthetics.”
- Vangelis Aragiannis, Jazz & Tzaz , Greece
“Exploratory yet rooted, oblique yet lyrical, dark but playful, all
rendered with synergetic
group interplay.”
-Tom Lawton, pianist and
composer, Dreambox Media
“I really enjoyed this cd! Great songs and great playing,
Check it out!”
-Uri
Caine, pianist and composer, Winter and Winter
“There's a quiet intelligence to Jeff Baumeister's playing that
often brings Paul Bley to
mind. In many ways this is the sort of piano session ECM
releases by the
bucketful only with warmer, more upfront production. If you're
as fond of smart, probing
piano music as I am, this is a fine example.”
-
Jerome Wilson, Cadence Magazine
“Baumeister, Dan Capecchi, Greg Riley and Peter Paulsen
executed every piece with
boldness. The abstractly painted soundscapes are a
Stenson-
like blending heritage with a
touch of groovy lyricism. They defy all, culminating in six
masterpieces. As soon as your
ears will get to this album you will be impressed by
Baumeister’s craft. Highly
recommended! “
- Dr. Ana Isabel Ordonez, Jazz
Review.com
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