The Game's Afoot! by John Carlini

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Smooth Jazz | Background Music

9 tracks | 43 minutes

Released Jun 2003
on FGM Records

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Presents original acoustic music uniquely arranged and orchestrated using the influences from the idioms of bluegrass, jazz, and classical music.

Editorial review

Tony Rice, who penned the liner notes for this album of acoustic instrumental music by the John Carlini Quartet, struggles to choose a genre for it, writing, "For lack of a better term, I would categorize the music herein as simply modern string jazz," but then pulling back from that description because of the presence (on most of the tracks) of a five-string banjo played by Pat Cloud, and the inclusion of a drummer. "These instruments are not usually associated with string jazz <i>a l?</i> Stephane Grappelli/Django Reinhardt-Joe Venuti/Eddie Lang," Rice acknowledges, and he might have added that the absence of a violin also complicates things. Guitarist Carlini was once a member of David Grisman's group, and this one mirrors Grisman's lineup (minus the drummer), so one might use Grisman's catchall term "dawg music" to describe the result. It's really a hybrid of acoustic jazz and bluegrass, and perhaps leans a bit more toward jazz than Grisman's music, however, which is where the reference to Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt's Hot Club of France comes in. Unlike most musicians, Rice acknowledges that categorizing music "has some merit" in that it helps non-musicians figure out "where to find it on the radio or in the record store." (It also helps mere listeners determine whether they're going to like it.) So, let's say that fans of Grisman and/or the Hot Club will feel at home here as Carlini and company improvise effectively on a set of Carlini's tunes that sound like they could have been written for a straight-ahead jazz group even though they're being played on what are considered to be country instruments. The music is a lot of fun, and the band probably gets invited to twice as many music festivals this way. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

The John Carlini Quartet's newest release The Game's Afoot! presents original acoustic music uniquely arranged and orchestrated using the influences from the idioms of bluegrass, jazz and classical music. Carlini's music on this release blends influences and experiences from his diverse musical background. "Since my early days with the David Grisman Quintet," Carlini recalls, "internally I heard these instruments playing within the context of combining orchestrated music with improvisation with no limitations to the harmonic and linear content of the music. I think of it as a Miles Davis-type group playing on bluegrass instruments."

Using the talents of first-rate jazz musicians who were equally adept in the bluegrass genre, John's challenge to the band members was thay they be able to discuss Bill Monroe and John Coltrane in the same sentence and seamlessly blend those musical expressions in their execution of these tunes.