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Seize The Time in All About Jazz NY


05 February 2010
All About Jazz NY
Tom Chandler

Seize the Time is the fifth album from Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls, a Chicago quintet advancing ideas promulgated by the politically-conscious late '50s-early '60s bands of Charles Mingus and Max Roach or Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, but embracing such later agit-prop music as British rock band The Clash. In fact, the opening track is a piece from that band, "Clampdown," given rolling momentum by Sirota and bassist Jake Vinsel, a declamatory theme statement from saxophonists Geof Bradfield (tenor) and Greg Ward (alto) contrasted against the rocking guitar of Dave Miller, with the theme taking hymnal overtones after a round of solos. Time signature shifts as rhythmic acceleration and retard are deftly and tightly handled on Mingus' "Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi USA." Handclaps join drums in the romping Caetano Veloso samba celebrating Brazil's slave emancipation day, "13 de Maio." Stephen Foster's "Hard Times (Come Again No More)" is updated with semi-rubato drum rolls and bass clarinet (Bradfield). And Miriam Makeba's "Polo Mze" is offered in two parts, one with a jaunty, timbale-like beat, the other with rock backbeats and polyphonal soloing. Originals from bandmembers run the gamut from the leader's cowbell-fueled "Killa Dilla," employing overdubbed guitar and electric bass, to Vinsel's miniature suite "Little D," which moves through swing and calypso rhythms.
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