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Jeff "Siege" Siegel Quartett

Live in Europe
Artists Recording Collective ARC 2055

Already before this CD-Recording the american drummer Jeff "Siege" Siegel played a few times in Europe and especially also in Germany with the piano-bass-drums-trio Siegel&Ferguson. He also played a few years in the trio of pianist Sir Roland Hanna. Other activities were collaborations with Kenny Burell, Ron Carter, Benny Golson and Sheila Jordan.

2005 he was underway with his own Quartett, supported by Eric Lindsay (tenor sax) and the pianist Francesca Tanksley, which both are known from the Lindsay-CD "YES - Live At The Rosendale Café", and the bassist Danton Boller. From this formation is Siegels actual CD, which contains material collected by the industrious broadcasters Radio Bremen, in whose broadcasting rooms recordings were made, and Bayerischer Rundfunk who did recordings in the meanwhile well known Jazz-Club "Unterfahrt" in Munich.

The CD contains six compositions, of which four are from the band leader himself alone. The energetic opener "Elvin's circle" though is from Erica Lindsay and is related of course to the drummer Elvin Jones. In this track, like on her own CD, her powerful and sovereign tenorsaxophone-playing sticks out as well as the performance of the pianist. Likewise the bass and drums are present with respective lead parts. Also the composition of Francesca Tanksleys "Dance in the question" is a complicated-thick power thing with some latin-tinge in the rhythm.