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Close To So Far by Joe LoCascio
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fave it Bebop | Traditional Jazz Combo
11 tracks | 57 minutes
Released May 2006
on Heart Music
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:13 Turnabout lyrics BUY MP3 05:13 Turnabout lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:13 Turnabout
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 In The Quiet Of Autumn lyrics BUY MP3 03:57 In The Quiet Of Autumn lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 In The Quiet Of Autumn
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:38 Close To So Far lyrics BUY MP3 07:38 Close To So Far lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:38 Close To So Far
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:51 For You lyrics BUY MP3 04:51 For You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:51 For You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:03 And Her Look Touching The Air lyrics BUY MP3 07:03 And Her Look Touching The Air lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:03 And Her Look Touching The Air
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:29 Edland lyrics BUY MP3 05:29 Edland lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:29 Edland
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Purgatory lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 Purgatory lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Purgatory
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Idiot’s Delight lyrics BUY MP3 03:48 Idiot’s Delight lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Idiot’s Delight
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:26 A Goodbye Moment lyrics BUY MP3 05:26 A Goodbye Moment lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:26 A Goodbye Moment
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Modern fluid swinging piano approach utilizing bitonality dissonance and extended harmonies
Editorial review
This is New Yorker-transplanted-to-Texas Joe LoCascio's tenth album and his second for the Heart Music label. He is joined by his regular playing companions of bass player John Adams and drummer Tim Solook. Like many of his contemporaries, LoCascio goes with a program comprised entirely of his own compositions. The pianist's writings, for the most part, are direct and unswerving. You don't find many that take side trips away from the basic theme of the tune. This tends to give most of what LoCascio plays a meditative, stream-of-consciousness feel about it such as on "Big Motel." Even the more up-tempo (e.g., "A Goodbye Moment") are straightforward, with no pyrotechnics added. Some reviewers have pigeonholed this piano player as a crossover jazz artist, where he mixes in varying measures of jazz and pop in his music. There is none of that here. This is mainstream jazz, bop, and contemporary jazz blended together to satisfy the appetites of a serious jazz acolyte. He applies an ability to take something from different modes and blend them together to make something meaningful come out the other end. For example, there's the unusual Serge Prokofiev-like opening on "Idiot's Delight," where jagged rhythms play tag with a theme that has a bit of ragtime in it. "In the Quiet of Autumn" becomes a musical sonnet in the deft and able hands of LoCascio. Not forgetting his playing mates, LoCascio allows plenty of room for them to expand mere time-keeping duties. Adams' bass opens with a concentrated, lengthy solo on a poetically titled "And Her Look Touching the Air." All in all, this is a very satisfying 57 minutes of music by an artist who merits being included among the best of his contemporary piano-playing peers. Recommended. ~ Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
It is rare when you can put together three creative musicians and have them perform as if they were of one mind. The Joe LoCascio Trio (Ed Soph on drums and John Adams on bass) has been performing on this level since 1990. Their textures are multi-layered and complex and convey a strong sense of melody while interacting as an ensemble. Warm and powerful, wide and round in tone, and tastefully and suspensefully restrained in his timeless schooled lyricism, LoCascio's technique is definitively dramatic and lush. Choosing to temper his velocity in order to ring out the full depth of his tone, the timbre and gravity of his tone is given equal footing with his composition, thus enhancing and sustaining the emotion evoked by his choice of notes. This is the definition of Joe LoCascio's signature sound.
Born and raised in New York, Joe LoCascio has made Houston his permanent home since 1977.
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