Dan Weiss Trio Plus 1 - Utica Box (2019)

Dan Weiss Trio Plus 1
Utica Box
2019 - Sunnyside Communications, Inc., Sunnyside Records: SSC 1573
http://www.sunnysiderecords.com/release_detail.php?releaseID=999
https://sunnysidezone.com/album/utica-box

* Jacob Sacks : piano
* Thomas Morgan: bass
* Eivind Opsvik: bass
* Dan Weiss : drums

https://www.jacobsacks.com/
http://www.thomasmorgan.net/
https://www.eivindopsvik.com/
https://www.danweiss.net/

Reviews
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By Phil Freeman
https://www.stereogum.com/2065702/ugly-beauty-the-month-in-jazz-november-2019/franchises/ugly-beauty/

Percussionist Dan Weiss leads a quartet on this release: pianist Jacob Sacks,
and two bassists, Thomas Morgan plucking and Eivind Opsvik bowing (mostly, but
not always). This combination of basses is similar to what Ornette Coleman was
doing in his final groups, but there, the bowed bass — played by Tony Falanga —
was operating in a slightly higher register, like a cello. Here, Opsvik mostly
stays low. Two pieces, “Jamerson” and “Bonham,” reveal Weiss’s influences from
beyond the world of jazz, even if neither piece sounds like a Motown or a Led
Zeppelin song. The nearly 12-minute “Orange” rolls out like an endless carpet
of drums, Sacks’ piano as subtle as a Morton Feldman piece at certain points
and the two bassists rumbling and thrumming. Even in its quietest passages, the
piece, which is written in such a way that it’s impossible to tell what’s
improvised (if anything) and what’s not, has a simmering intensity that’s
closer to modern classical than jazz. Like the rest of this album, it gets more
beautiful the more carefully you listen.

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By Lee Rice Epstein
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2020/01/dan-weiss-trio-plus-1-utica-box.html

By Troy Dostert
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/utica-box-dan-weiss-sunnyside-records

By George W. Harris
https://www.jazzweekly.com/2020/02/dan-weiss-trio-plus-1-utica-box/

By Martin Johnson
https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/dan-weiss-trio-plus-1-utica-box-sunnyside/

Da Arturo Pepe (it)
https://traccedijazz.com/2020/02/18/dan-weiss-trio-plus-1-utica-box/

Por «el intruso» (es)
https://elintruso.com/anticipo-de-utica-box-el-nuevo-album-de-dan-weiss/