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- Artist(s): Aaron Parks, Joshua Redman, Matt Penman, Eric Harland
- Summary: This is the debut release for the jazz quartet made up of Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Jazz, Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Modern Jazz
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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MojoDec 12, 2011Impressive, entertaining - a new supergroup is born. [Aug. 2011, p. 101]
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May 3, 2011James Farm offers real compositional depth and spirited, sophisticated improvisation, making for a deeply satisfying listen and a promising debut.
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Aug 9, 2011While James Farm is not a flatly innovative recording, it is just the kind of thing that modern instrumental jazz needs these days.
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May 3, 2011James Farm [could have felt] like a chore, too cerebral and micromanaged to take flight. The album does occasionally skirt that fate but never succumbs to it. Beneath the veneer of sleek accomplishment, there's an undertow of risk.
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May 3, 2011It's good, but you want to hear them live.
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May 3, 2011It's very classy contemporary jazz, but it doesn't leave quite as lingering an effect as the lineup suggests it might.
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May 3, 2011Even where the musical ideas are strong, they're sapped by the determinedly relaxed ambiance.
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