Jazz drummer Jochen Rueckert flaunts his mastery around his
\ndrums like former WWF champion Steve Austin likes to use his middle
\nfinger. Rueckert’s skill is obvious and demands listeners to get
\ncloser to the stereo to hear the accuracy with which he executes
\nrimshots and syncopated cymbal rhythms.<\/p>\n
Rueckert seems to acknowledge his drumming, while impressive,
\nwould not hold a listener’s interest. He has assembled bassists
\nMatt Penman and Johannes Weiden Muller, guitarists Kurt Rosenwinkle
\nand Ben Monder, and saxophone players Chris Potter and Hayden
\nChisholm to create smokin’ versions of some jazz standards. Each
\ntrack, except two, are safely above the six minute tick, which
\nallows all the musicians the room to stretch.<\/p>\n
Rueckert takes his solo during Kerner & Lewis’ “Just
\nFriends,” capitalizing on his small bass drum-tom-floor tom-snare
\nsetup to coax multiple sounds. His rimshots are on the mark and his
\nsnare sound is warm. His set, throughout the disc, should be noted
\nfor its full ambient sound. During his solo, you can hear the
\ncharacter of his toms with slight echoes after he has struck them.
\nHis cymbal work is tasteful and interesting.<\/p>\n
Although it’s not meant to be part of the album, at 11:24 in
\ntrack 8, the musicians start jamming a couple of Nirvana songs. It
\nis interesting to hear the “serious” musician stretch out in what
\nsounds like a fun jam. Rueckert sounds out of place, though, as a
\nrock drummer. His fills sound less than comfortable and the overall
\ntimekeeping is sloppy.<\/p>\n
But it was meant to be fun, as
\nIntroduction<\/i> is, on two levels: to hear vintage tracks by
\nthe likes of Bruebeck and Coltrane swung into the ’90s by a new hot
\njazz drummer; and as a reminder that artists like Rueckert keep the
\njazz genre interesting and, importantly, alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7583],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-39410","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jochen-rueckert","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39410"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}