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May 2003
By David
R. Adler
Deidre Rodman – Gearing up for the recording
of her second Sunnyside disc, the pianist/composer
led a marvelous quintet at Cornelia Street,
with Tony Malaby on saxes, Russ Johnson on trumpet,
Bob Bowen on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums. Vocalist
Luciana Souza joined for a couple of songs, and Rodman
even provided backing vocals — not something you hear
at a jazz gig too often. Malaby and Johnson had a
lot of reading to do, for Rodman’s material is dense
and carefully composed, with background lines and
contrapuntal swirls filling the air much of the time.
But Rodman never skimps on charged, open-ended improvisation.
Nor does she keep her rock-n-roll influences under
wraps.
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David R. Adler
New York @ Night
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