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- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cryptogramophone
Famed keyboardist for hire gets fusion funky.
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Alan Pasqua’s been a keyboardist for hire for artists ranging from Henry Mancini to Eddie Money to Bob Dylan, co-wrote the theme used by the CBS Evening News in the late '80s and has released a trio of gently magnificent acoustic jazz discs with the likes of Dave Holland, Paul Motian and Michael Brecker for support. But he’s also a rugged fusion player, with a stint in Tony Williams’ New Lifetime beside guitarist Alan Holdsworth on his resume. Now comes this splashy outing, which has the gizmo-oriented, funk-rock propulsion of Weather Report, electric Miles and, not surprisingly, New Lifetime.
Regardless of style and texture, Pasqua’s forte is as a composer, a minter of melodic vamps and groove narratives, who was a student of renowned composer-pianist George Russell at the New England Conservatory of Music. The most ambitious piece on The Antisocial Club is named after Russell, and features a suite of rough and smooth surfaces, guitarist Nels Cline playing chicka-chicka riffs a la Nile Rodgers, Hendrixian depth charges of feedback and industrial skronk — all within ten and a half minutes. “Fast Food” is even more blatant fusion, with a rigid funk groove undergirding a variety of rock wankery (rippling horn lines, screeching guitar) and fun, shimmery keyboard note-washes. Pasqua drops in a pair of meditations: “Prayer,” a muted but spectral bit of atmospherics, and the closing “Message to Beloved Souls Departed,” a repetitive, mildly hypnotic processional eulogy. There’s not a lot of new ground broken here, but fusion fans who like wet, heavy beats and a momentum-churning flair for melody will be pleased.
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| 01. |  |
The Anti Social Club |
9:48 |
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| 02. | |
George Russell |
10:26 |
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| 03. | |
Prayer |
5:45 |
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| 04. | |
New Rhodes |
7:50 |
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| 05. | |
Fast Food |
8:23 |
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| 06. | |
Wicked Good |
9:10 |
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| 07. | |
Message to Beloved Souls Departed |
4:48 |
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07 Total Tracks, 56:10 Total Length
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