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01. Rob Brown Quartet - Twinkle
02. Rob Brown Quartet - Flat Out
03. Rob Brown Quartet - Elbow Figure
04. Rob Brown Quartet - Sonic Drawl
05. Rob Brown Quartet - Like A Top
06. Rob Brown Quartet - Charcoal Glow
07. Rob Brown Quartet - Step WIth Care
08. Rob Brown Quartet - Open Channel
ARTIST
TITLE
Jumping Off The Page
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
NOMORE 008CD NOMORE 008CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/2/2018

Warehouse find of the last copies of this long unavailable 2000 release. Jumping Off The Page is a studio recording by the quartet of Rob Brown (alto sax, flute), Roy Campbell (trumpet), Chris Lightcap (bass), and Jackson Krall (drums). "Alto saxophonist and flutist Rob Brown is often featured in the context of other leaders' recordings as an inventive improviser who has enough of the early AACM in him to stretch time, space, and harmonic ideas, and enough of the late-'50s hard bop tradition in his playing to make whatever he involves himself in move. This being only his third date as a leader, it's difficult to see why. Brown is a fiery player and an inspiring bandleader. With a harsh yet rich tone that comes out of the Anthony Braxton school of alto blowing, he careens through rapid successions of crisscrossing melody lines in 'Twinkle', the opener, trading fours and overtones with Roy Campbell's trumpet. With a rhythm section comprised of the young Chris Lightcap on bass and Jackson Krall on drums, this quartet has enough heat to share a bandstand with anybody. Over seven compositions, Brown reveals how brevity is the key to dragging ideas out of his players. He is always firmly in charge, but in a capacity that is nurturing musically. There are places, such as on 'Like a Top' and 'Step With Care', where his own development in the Ornette Coleman school of melodic free improvisation shines forth as it leads the quartet into places it could never have expected to go. In all, this is an awesome example of the new jazz coming from New York." --Thom Jurek, AllMusicGuide.