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- Date Released: December 31, 1986
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Soul Note / CAM
Moondoc simultaneously embraces and tweaks tradition
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Saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc has been one of the more mercurial figures on the New York free jazz scene since moving to the city from his native Chicago in the early '70s. Nostalgia in Times Square is one of his most peculiar yet compelling efforts, arriving just prior to a decade-long retirement from the scene when he began working as an architect’s assistant — he returned to playing live in the mid-'90s. After leading edgy groups like Muntu (with trumpeter Roy Campbell) and his large ensemble Jus Grew Orchestra, this quintet outing came as a move inside the tradition, yet the line-up guaranteed nothing here would sound predictable, including Moondoc’s notoriously slippery intonation.
Flanked by bassist William Parker, legendary drummer Denis Charles, former Roland Kirk pianist Rahn Burton and Ornette Coleman guitarist Bern Nix, Moondoc applies his idiosyncratic phrasing, which shoots straight from the blues to outer space, to hard-swinging arrangements for a delicious tension. With Nix embracing Coleman’s harmonic freedom and Moondoc displaying a deliberate roughness the music can challenge sticklers for perfect intonation, but that tartness is the source of much of the off-kilter pleasure. The album’s highlight is the title track, an ebullient reading of the bluesy Charles Mingus obscurity, but Moondoc’s originals are terrific, too, simultaneously embracing and tweaking tradition. -
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| 01. |  |
Nostalgia In Times Square |
13:14 |  |
| 02. | |
Flora |
12:19 | |
| 03. | |
In Walked Monk |
15:19 | |
| 04. | |
Dance Of The Clowns |
10:48 | |
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