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JazzTimes
November 1996
Jazz
takes a little trip around the world without
apology on Ionospheres, from the Bay Area-based
Ian Dogole and Global Fusion (Cymekob). Dogole
plays a percussion battery of assorted ethnic
derivation, from talking drums to caxixi to
dumbek to actual unaltered drum kit.The unorthodox
group boasts strong playing, from such members
as trumpeter Dmitri Matheny and violist Eric
Golub. On the group's third album, they search
for fresh ways to approach familiar rivulets
in jazz, by recharging Mango Santamaria's "Afro
Blue" paying tribute to Miles in a medley
which includes "Miles Beyond" and
"Bitches Brew," and turning in a version
of Ornette Coleman's "Turnaround"
that ventures outward from a barreling unison
reading of the melody. They nod to Sun Ra on
Dogole's ethereal "Pyramids of Pluto"
global and intergalactic, all at once, and dabble
in Mid-Eastern tonalities on the closing "Roastmaster
General."
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