Neil Sadler - Theory Of Forms (1999)

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Title: Theory Of Forms
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Bleeding Arts[BA10012]
Genre: Jazz Rock, Fusion
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 55:41
Total Size: 367 MB(+3%) | 131 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1. Jazz Bastards 9:36
2. DNA For Beginners 4:36
3. Suehiro 4:36
4. Theory Of Forms 12:36
5. Sid Sings 5:38
6. runRim 7:21
7. wFb 9:00

personnel :

Neil Sadler: keyboards, percussion
Mike Keneally: guitar
Walt Fowler: trumpet, flugelhorn
Steve Fowler: alto sax (3,5,6)
Albert Wing: tenor sax (1,4,7)
Kurt McGettrick: tenor sax (3,5)
Bruce Fowler: trombone (1,4,7)
Bryan Beller: bass (1,2,7)
Joel Woods: bass (3,5,6)

This is delightfully frenetic, jazzish, and fusiony art executed with quirky, energetic, odd-metered, free-blowin' yet structured abandon. Neil Sadler's seven compositions are whirlpools of beat, whole-tone scales, and staccato attacks and explosions -- all geared for great improvs and dynamics. Ah, there is also room for Keneally fusion riffs and Torn-like howling sustain. Walt, Steve, and Bruce Fowler bring in a definite Miles Davis/Mark Isham aura along with that Steve Coleman, Dave Binney, and Brecker feel in many places. There are Lost Tribe echoes as well. That Zappa-esque or Raymond Scott eclectica fills many a niche in these complex pieces. A sense of early Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House is present on "Suehiro." If you're into hot sax, brash brass, wild'n'weird guitar, bizarre synth atmospherics, complex percussion lines, and tight compositions, you'll get off on this. Guaranteed. This is beyond acid jazz, eludes fusion, twists tighter than free form, and just flat out smokes! You hear it said that Miles Davis' Bitches Brew set a standard, started jazz fusion, and so forth. Well, Sadler's Theory of Forms would have made Davis grin, then smile and whisper, "Neil, you da man, this is the $#!* man. Yeah, this is the good stuff!"