{"id":896,"date":"2009-03-11T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=896"},"modified":"2009-03-11T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:28:20","slug":"reviews-dave-burrell-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-dave-burrell-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews &#8211; Dave Burrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 5px;\">\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\">Author:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypaper.net\/authors\/Shaun+Brady\">Shaun Brady<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right;\">\n<table style=\"font-size: 10px; height: 33px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"169\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\" scope=\"col\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\" scope=\"col\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"40\" scope=\"col\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"60\" align=\"right\" scope=\"col\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"dates\" style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> Source: Philadelphia City Paper<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypaper.net\/articles\/2006\/12\/21\">Dec 20, 2006<\/a> <!--\nLast Modified: Dec 21, 2006--> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin-right: 10px;\">.artist { text-align: left; }  .title { margin-top: 3px; }  .label { margin-top: 3px; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"label\">1. Dave Burrell: Momentum (High Two)<\/div>\n<p>2004&#8217;s <em>Expansion <\/em>saw Burrell return to the studio for his first proper album as a leader in nearly 30 years, unleashing a high-energy flurry of pent-up invention. Taking a cue from the pianist&#8217;s score for the 1925 Oscar Micheaux silent <em>Body and Soul<\/em>, his follow-up is a more subdued, brooding affair. Burrell elaborates haunting melodies into bluesy swing and stabbing dissonance, engaging his DB3 trio (bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Guillermo E. Brown) in tense, shifting interplay.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0 Shaun Brady Source: Philadelphia City PaperDec 20, 2006 .artist { text-align: left; } .title { margin-top: 3px; } .label [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,48,76,50,60,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-dave-burrell","category-ht008","category-releases","category-reviews","category-shot-x-shot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":892,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-dave-burrell-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":896,"position":0},"title":"Reviews &#8211; Dave Burrell","author":"admin","date":"March 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Brent Burton Source: Jazz Times Jan\/Feb 2007 \"Momentum, shows that Burrell\u2019s art, unlike his reputation, is anything but tethered to the past.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":890,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-dave-burrell\/","url_meta":{"origin":896,"position":1},"title":"Reviews &#8211; Dave Burrell","author":"admin","date":"March 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Byron Coley Source: Harp Dave Burrell\u2019s genius as an improviser lies in his talent to obliterate conventions and stylistic gulfs that would swallow most people whole. 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This is the record to bring Burrell to the attention of all listeners who crave the unmistakable thump of authenticity.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":894,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-dave-burrell-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":896,"position":5},"title":"Reviews &#8211; Dave Burrell","author":"admin","date":"March 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: troy Collins Source: All About Jazz Published: November 07, 2006 Link to this article For the first time in almost thirty years, pianist Dave Burrell returned to the studio to record as a leader with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille on 2004's Expansion (High Two). 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