Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble - Flood at the Ant Farm (1996) {Black Saint 120182-2}
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Jazz / Progressive Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Post Bop / Saxophone
The second CD by Philip Johnston's Big Trouble is jazz mixing great musicianship with a touch of madness. He treats Steve Lacy's "Hemline" as if it were penned by Raymond Scott (whose music was adapted for classic Looney Tunes cartoons) and "Bone" sounds like a wild improvisation on a childhood chant. Pianist Joe Ruddick's "Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken" has a nifty calypso beat with an intense cacophony of reeds and brass. Johnston is also a gifted composer; his "Pontius Pilate Polka" blends folk dances with swinging Dixieland interludes. "Mr. Crocodile" is a light samba with a touch of reggae. Highly recommended for fans of the great melting pot of jazz.
Verrry clev-ah! Johnston's fancy riffs and 30-second drills and hot-shot chop-shop stops-out licks all invade the senses in a dozen turn-on-a-nickel charts. It's jumpy, quick two-step stuff that Johnston plies, drawing on the tradition of his work with Microscopic Septet and off-Madison Avenue jingles, as well as oblique fascinations with T. Monk and S. Lacy. Extensions of form and zippy, peripatetic charts for smart octet are your main meat here, certainly not-as notesmaster Francis Davis points out in a witty analogy-your oh-too-basic head-solos-out kinda set, or band, for that matter.
Need soundalikes? I come up with smoothed out, classics-free Willem Breuker or Raymond Scott's witty illuminations addled with ADD, irreverencies like Either/Orchestra (pianist Ruddick's "Heaven Hell or Hoboken"). Sometimes a chart'll stretch out a bit, like the leisurely palm-beach stroll with Steve Swell's trombone that sets up "Mr. Crocodile," but bing! Johnston's light, droll soprano pokes in with a tasteful solo, and the ensemble heats up, and whoops! Bob deBellis' baritone blusters in and shows who the real hongry reptilian is. There are moments-lots of them. In fact, it's nearly all moments. Accumulatively, perhaps less than a sum of the parts. But nice parts. But is it jazz? What else could it be? And who cares anyway? Have fun.
Musicians
Phillip Johnston - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
Steve Swell - trombone
Bob DeBellis - soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Joe Ruddick - piano, keyboards, sampler, alto saxophone
David Hofstra - bass
Kevin Norton - drums, vibraphone, marimba
Bob Henke - trumpet
Ron Horton - trumpet
Track Listing
01 - Hemline
02 - Willie's Room
03 - Mr. Crocodile
04 - Advertisement for a Dream
05 - (They) Call Me Daisy
06 - Pontius Pilate Polka
07 - The Enduring Heart
08 - Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken
09 - Don't Fret, Sweat
10 - Alibi Blue
11 - Bone
12 - Hairline
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Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble / Flood at the Ant Farm
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Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble / Flood at the Ant Farm
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