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Denny Zeitlin & George Marsh – Expedition – Sunnyside Records

by Audiophile Audition | Jul 27, 2017 | Jazz CD Reviews

Denny Zeitlin & George Marsh – Expedition – Sunnyside Records SSC1487 75:07****: If approached with an open mind, the ingredients of sound make sense ( Denny Zeitlin –  acoustic piano/hardware & virtual synthesizers/keyboards; George Marsh – drums & percussion) Denny Zeitlin has never been reluctant to practice his craft outside the nine dots. At the time of his first release entitled Cathexis in 1964, his piano playing was characterized as a hard bop, but  Zeitlin did not let this define him. He believed there were yet uncharted avenues to be explored and he set out to search for them. Over the intervening years, Zeitlin has flirted with such things as the prepared piano and electronic keyboards, and while he continues to record and perform on a standard acoustic piano, electro-acoustic interpretations of musical themes have become more prominent in his repetoire. Expedition is a further exploration of this genre that he and George Marsh recorded and released  in 2015 under the title Riding The Moment. Denny Zeitlin explains in the liner notes to Expedition,  that the music is based on spontaneous free improvisation, and for the most part is recorded in real time. The two principals are separated in the […]