Among other moments of abandon are departures into Latin rhythm in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Horse.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was written by Elliott, as was all of the music on the album except for the Ellington piece. Not all is fun and games. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Golden Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a waltz with an aggressive attitude, but not as aggressive as another waltz, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plum Run.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Orangeville\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is bluesy, soulful, waltzy, repetitive and laced with drum-bass conversations. Stabinsky gets as wild as Jaki Byard or Cecil Taylor shortly before the piece comes to an abrupt end. Relatively peaceful, relatively calm and conventional, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whitehall\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ends a bracing listening experience, but be warned\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor encouraged; with this band, nothing is conventional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/hotcuprecords.com Mostly Other People Do The Killing, Paint (Hot Cup) Mostly Other People Do The Killing has been a septet, a quintet and a quartet. For Paint , now that saxophonist Jon Irabagon, has left, the band is a trio. Whatever its size, whatever its project, MOPDTK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bassist and leader Moppa Elliott, sees that all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MOPDTK-.jpg\")
Mostly Other People Do The Killing has been a septet, a quintet and a quartet. For Paint <\/em>, now that saxophonist Jon Irabagon, has left, the band is a trio. Whatever its size, whatever its project, MOPDTK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bassist and leader Moppa Elliott, sees that all of its original tunes are named after towns in Pennsylvania. In this case, the towns\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 names also contain the names of colors, hence the album title. Yes, there is a place in Pennsylvania called Black Horse and a farm called Blue Goose, which \u00e2\u20ac\u201dcoincidentally\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis the name of a piece that Duke Ellington recorded twice in 1940. In his book The Swing Era<\/em><\/a>, Gunther Schuller describes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue Goose\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lesser number,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d then praises Ellington and his soloists, particularly Johnny Hodges, for transforming it into something \u00e2\u20ac\u0153quite beyond the reach of most other orchestras.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d MOPDTK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pianist Ron Stabinsky seems as determined as Ellington to transfigure the piece, some of whose harmonies suggest \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stardust,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d although “Blue Goose” has a character all its own. ”\u00a0Drummer Kevin Shea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chattering strokes abet Stabinsky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wild ride through the changes, far from the pair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only sparring matches in this exhilarating collection.<\/p>\n