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    ▀▀▓▓█▌            Drew Gress - The Irrational Numbers             ░
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      ▀▀▄▓▒▓   Artist .....: Drew Gress                             ▓▒▓
        ▐█▓▓   Title ......: The Irrational Numbers                 ▓▓█
        ▀██▓   Year .......: 2008                                   ▓██
         ██▓   Genre ......: Jazz                                   ▓██
         ███   Label ......: Premonition Records                    ▓██
         ███   Source .....: CD                                     ▓█▓
         ███   Bitrate ....: 182 kbps avg                           ██▓
         ███   khz ........: 44.1                                   █▓▓
         ███   Mode .......: Joint Stereo                           ██▓
         ██▓   Encoder ....: LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new               ██▓
         ██▓   Reldate ....: 2009-03-28                             ▓██
         ██▓   Storedate ..: 2008-00-00                             ▓██
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  ███▌  Tracklist ▀                                          ███
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  ███   1.  Bellweather                                 1:48 ███
  ███   2.  Chevelle                                    8:28 ███
  ███   3.  Your Favorite Kind                          4:32 ███
  ███   4.  Fauxjobim                                   5:26 ███
  ███   5.  Neopolitan                                 12:38 ███
  ███   6.  Blackbird Backtalk                          7:01 ███
  ███   7.  By Far                                      6:13 ███
  ███   8.  Mas Relief                                  2:08 ███
  ███   9.  That Heavenly Hell                          8:20 ███
  ███   10. True South                                  7:08 ███
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                ███▌  Release   ▀                                          ███
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                ██▓   Drew Gress might be suffering from a Dr. Jekyll/Mr.  ▓██
                ██▓   Hyde complex. On one side, he's the mild-mannered,   ▓██
                ██▓   in-demand bassist whose exemplary fret work has      ▓██
                ██▓   supported other artists' recordingsùpianist Fred     ▓██
                ██▓   Hersch, The Claudia Quintet's For (Cuneiform         ▓██
                ██▓   Records, 2007) and the Steve Lehman Quintet's On     ▓██
                ██▓   Meaning (Pi Recordings, 2007), to name just a few.   ▓██
                ██▓   However, on the flip side, a ferocious alter-ego     ▓██
                ██▓   emerges when Gress is a leader, producing some of    ▓██
                ██▓   the most dynamically forward music in the current    ▓██
                ██▓   environment with The Irrational Numbers.             ▓██
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                ██▓   The truly monster quintet is reassembled from        ▓██
                ██▓   Gress' 2005 recording 7 Black Butterflies            ▓██
                ██▓   (Premonition), with names synonymous with music on   ▓██
                ██▓   the edge: Tim Berne (alto sax), Ralph Alessi         ▓██
                ██▓   (trumpet), Tom Rainey (drums) and Craig Taborn       ▓██
                ██▓   (keyboards). They continue on adventurous sonic      ▓██
                ██▓   paths with Gress' power bass solo in "Bellwether,"   ▓██
                ██▓   back-dropped against the sounds of horns and clever  ▓██
                ██▓   electronics, leading into the pulsing dance of       ▓██
                ██▓   "Chevelle" and the unusual ballad "By Far."          ▓██
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                ██▓   "Neapolitan" is the recording's piA~?ce de           ▓██
                ██▓   rA~⌐sistance; a stunning show of Gress' writing,     ▓██
                ██▓   and of musicians who are capable of pulling off      ▓██
                ██▓   multiple solo threads, shifting themes, changes in   ▓██
                ██▓   intensity, and blazing performances. More ideas are  ▓██
                ██▓   conveyed in its twelve minutes then in some entire   ▓██
                ██▓   recordings.                                          ▓██
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                ██▓   The nature of the music is even more atmospheric     ▓██
                ██▓   and enigmatic than its predecessor Butterflies, due  ▓██
                ██▓   in great part to some tech-savvy production work by  ▓██
                ██▓   guitarist/film scorer David Torn. This work is       ▓██
                ██▓   especially noticeable on "True South" (which         ▓██
                ██▓   includes the theme from composer John Philip         ▓██
                ██▓   Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever"), which is       ▓██
                ██▓   beautiful, surrealistic and haunting.                ▓██
                ██▓                                                        ▓██
                ██▓   Yet once again, it is the quintet's musicianship     ▓██
                ██▓   that transforms Jekyll into something more than      ▓██
                ██▓   human, as witnessed on the aptly titled "The         ▓██
                ██▓   Heavenly Hell." It contains Gress' muscular bass     ▓██
                ██▓   dueling with Alessi's bright trumpet. Then a heated  ▓██
                ██▓   argument develops between Berne's angular alto and   ▓██
                ██▓   Taborn's piano. Finally, Rainey's drum torrent       ▓██
                ██▓   enters the fray with the entire quintet exchanging   ▓██
                ██▓   intense solos. And like that fictional Hyde (after   ▓██
                ██▓   the nefarious concoction has been consumed), Gress   ▓██
                ██▓   is at it again with The Irrational Numbers.          ▓██
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