Dogs of Great Indifference

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Dogs of Great Indifference
Dogs of Great Indifference.jpg
Studio album by Jim Black's AlasNoAxis
Released June 13, 2006
Recorded October 30 & 31 and November 1, 2005
Brooklyn Recording, NY
Genre Improvised music, jazz
Length65:26
Label Winter & Winter 910 120
Producer Stefan Winter
Jim Black chronology
Habyor
(2004)		Dogs of Great Indifference
(2006)		 Houseplant
(2009)

Dogs of Great Indifference is the fourth album by drummer Jim Black's AlasNoAxis featuring clarinetist/saxophonist Chris Speed, guitarist Hilmar Jensson and bassist Skúli Sverrisson released on the Winter & Winter label in 2006. [1]

Jim Black American jazz drummer

Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas, among others. He attended Berklee College of Music.

Chris Speed American musician

Chris Speed is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

Skúli Sverrisson Icelandic musician

Skúli Sverrisson is an Icelandic composer and bass guitarist.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his review for Allmusic, Dave Lynch said "Maybe a bandleader as accomplished as Black sees Dogs of Great Indifference merely as fun indie rock, but there's also the possibility that in all its contradictions, this music has perfectly captured the Zeitgeist of the mid-2000s, a time when nobody actually agrees upon a common Zeitgeist yet everybody is in it together". [2] In JazzTimes, Andrew Lindemann Malone observed "Those who like to relax with tunes may find Dogs of Great Indifference to be too unsteady, but if you want stimulation, Black and his band are right on the beam". [4] On AllAboutJazz Chris May stated "Dogs Of Great Indifference, the Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based drummer's fourth disc with his AlasNoAxis quartet, is a near-perfect gumbo. Heavy on backbeats and slash and burn guitar riffs, it's also full of astonishing freewheeling collective improvisation and adventure". [3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Jim Black

  1. "Oddfelt" - 7:52
  2. "Dogs of Great Indifference" - 6:49
  3. "Tars and Vanish" - 7:59
  4. "Spins So Free" - 2:22
  5. "Star Rubbed" - 3:50
  6. "Harmstrong" - 5:21
  7. "Everybody Says the Same" - 7:33
  8. "You Know Just Because" - 5:12
  9. "Desemrascar" - 9:40
  10. "Harmsoft" - 1:36
  11. "I Am Seven" - 6:51

Personnel

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Clarinet type of woodwind instrument

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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References

  1. ↑ Winter & Winter discography, accessed November 26, 2014
  2. 1 2 Lynch, Dave. Jim Black – Dogs of Great Indifference > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  3. 1 2 May, C., AllAboutJazz Review, July 13, 2006
  4. ↑ Malone, A. L., JazzTimes Review, January/February 2007
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