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Rick Margitza - Bohemia (2004) [Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Rick Margitza - Bohemia (2004) [Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Artist: Rick Margitza
Album: Bohemia
Genre: Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz
Label: Nocturne
Released: 2004
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. Flat Two Girls (Margitza) - 6:33
  2. Buhhda Bop (Margitza) - 5:04
  3. Lostribe (Margitza/Desandre-Navarre) - 5:53
  4. Bluetown (Margitza) - 4:27
  5. Gypsies (Margitza) - 7:08
  6. Bloom (Desandre-Navarre) - 7:01
  7. Down on the Beach (Trad.) - 3:26
  8. Fable (Margitza) - 4:48
  9. Bartok (Margitza) - 2:10
  10. Street of Thieves (Margitza) - 6:37
  11. Blue Rue (Margitza) - 2:45
  12. Gyphop (Margitza) - 5:41
  13. Seems Like Old Times (Lombardo)/Old Town (Margitza) - 6:17

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Saxophonist Margitza - who appeared in one or two of Miles Davis's late-80s fusion bands - is in London next Monday and Tuesday with a very different project to this - playing small-group contemporary jazz with the Moutin Brothers quartet.

Bohemia is an altogether bigger and bolder operation, highlighting the Coltrane-influenced Margitza's interest in extended composition and adding a thick-textured, fusion-friendly soup of basses, keys, bouzoukis, voices, strings and Ennio Morricone-like whistling to some agile soprano and tenor sax lines.

The tunes are slyly and exotically hip, like the Headhunters band were they to wind up lost in north Africa, or a disorientated circus band in a Paris cafe. But for all the complexity of the music herein, Margitza cunningly manipulates the whole affair so that each instrument preserves its own character, preventing them from getting in each other's way.

Not only that but he also blends in other forms, adding the blues, Latin music and Broadway ballads to microtonal pitching, oompah rhythms and gypsy-dance hybrids, as if they all grew up in the same cultural melting pot. The result, if not quite as mind-blowing as it sounds, makes for a largely fascinating experience.
Review by John Fordham

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