{"id":975,"date":"2007-06-08T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=975"},"modified":"2007-06-08T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T22:39:41","slug":"review_nick_moran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/06\/review_nick_moran\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nick Moran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Moran, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMessenger-Nick-Moran-Trio%2Fdp%2FB000O90WJQ%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1181341915%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>The Messenger <\/em><\/a>(CAP). I mentioned Moran&#8217;s guitar playing nearly two years ago in one of the first <em>Rifftides<\/em> postings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/06\/hanging_out_at.html\"target=\"_blank\">The piece<\/a> was about a visit to The Garage in New York&#8217;s Greenwich Village. It included this observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moran is a good young guitarist with a lyrical bebop bent and an alert harmonic faculty. He would benefit from self-editing, but it&#8217;s a rare young improviser who would not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps because the occasion is a recording, not a jazz club performance, Moran&#8217;s solos here are shorter and crisper. It is good to hear him again with Ed Withrington. In this case, however, Withrington&#8217;s keyboard is a Hammond B-3, giving the group the fashionable organ trio sound but less of the crisp interplay with Moran that I heard when Withrington was on piano and the group had a bassist at The Garage. Withrington supplies bass lines with his foot pedal. Drummer Andy Watson has a chattery style and a nice feel for snare and cymbal accents.<br \/>\nThe repertoire is nine pieces by Moran. Combined with the instrumentation, the uniformity of compositional style produces a restful, if moderately enervating, listening experience. That may be precisely what Moran was aiming for, but this listener would have welcomed relief in pace and atmosphere, perhaps by way of a familiar standard or two or more of the adventurousness the group displays in the final track, &#8220;Shorter Steps.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be following Moran&#8217;s development with interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Moran, The Messenger (CAP). I mentioned Moran&#8217;s guitar playing nearly two years ago in one of the first Rifftides postings. The piece was about a visit to The Garage in New York&#8217;s Greenwich Village. It included this observation: Moran is a good young guitarist with a lyrical bebop bent and an alert harmonic faculty. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}