Search - Franck Amsallem & Tim Ries :: On Second Thought

A great live recording, just like the concert.

Montmartre | Brooklyn, NY | 11/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD comes from a 1998 radio recording at the Montpellier (France) jazz festival. It features a new facet to Amsallem's small-group writing. Both"Chanson Triste' and 'Thirty Two More Bars To Go' are vividly expressive ideas and the group (still anchored by saxophonist Ries now on soprano and alto, Johannes Weidenmuller, bass and Marc Miralta, drums) makes fascinating play with them both. 'Affreusement Votre' - which translates as something like 'Horribly Yours'- is more of a jeu d'esprit, but like everything Franck writes, it has a solid backbone of harmonic intelligence. The sound is very live and very present, with nice separation between the component instruments.



2004 PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ ON CDS, 7th edition"