Shamokin!!!
Mostly Other People Do The Killing
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Handsome Eddy | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 5:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Hop Bottom Hop | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 8:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Shamokin | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Dunkelbergers | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 7:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Factoryville | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 4:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Lover | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 4:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Andover | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Evans City | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 6:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Baden | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 6:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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A Night In Tunisia | Mostly Other People Do The Killing | 21:32 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Awesome free jazz.
I love this album, and its predecessor, MOPDTK. Trumpeter Peter Evans offers wild and crazy improv that spans the whole range of known (and unknown?) brass techniques, on trumpets AND baritone. Bassist and frontman Moppa Elliot is consistently on the ball, both as composer/arranger and as bassist/provider of harmonic support. Drummer Kevin Shea is busy and creative but never overbearing, which is refreshing given some drummers' treatment of free jazz. Jon Irabagon on alto sax has this deceptively 'in' sound about him, until he too goes off into crazy-land. As an ensemble, MOPDTK is tight and mature, able to venture out into strange and unexpected places/tempos/harmonic landscapes without losing it, or sounding clichéd or dumb. Listen to the samples and buy this album, for it is infectious and awesome, and gives more with each subsequent listen.
Reviews
Excerpts from Recent Reviews: …Thoroughly entertaining and in-your-face, the band merges a history of jazz into a modernized contempo format that comes right at you like a bullet train. They shift the pulse and overall scope either on a nanoseconds notice or seamlessly bridge the gap between trad jazz with cartoon-ish like candor. Top-notch soloing abounds throughout, and for the most part, the band doesn’t come up for air. At times, brash, loud and irrefutably witty, the musicians forge a bond within the jazz mainstream while expounding upon familiar terrain by morphing the old with the new. But don’t expect to hear anything that hints at easy listening. These folks go for the proverbial jugular. And it’s a curiously interesting affair that stands out like a wayward child among the more conventional USA-based jazz product… - Glen Astarita, ejazznews.com. Embracing post-modernism's all-inclusive, hyper-speed aesthetic, Elliott and company use their encyclopedic knowledge of genres and styles to enrich their statements in intersecting layers, avoiding the rote jump cut clichés of their fore bearers. One of the most infectiously vivacious releases of the year, Shamokin!!! reveals a new wrinkle in the tradition. Historically aware and virtuosic, the wily Mostly Other People Do The Killing is an ensemble to watch. -Troy Collins, allaboutjazz.com …MOPDtK accompany their name with a logo depicting a catastrophic gunshot wound to the head. The music is a keen analogue as minds are sure to be blown by the near-masterpiece they’ve come up with here. – Derek Taylor, Bagatellen.com
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