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Seb Pipe's Life Experience

Seb Pipe's Life Experience

Bar Code 5060080790838

This self-produced eponymous album by alto player Seb Pipe and his quartet was recorded at the 606 Club in February 2007 and was partly funded by the Musicians' Development Fund.

Pipe lists his musical interests as rooted in 'the African Diaspora, the Balkans and the Far East', and his saxophone teachers include Jean Toussaint, Steve Coleman and Julian Arguelles. The strongest of these influences on the music and playing on this lively, pleasingly varied album is possibly Coleman; the American M-Base pioneer's slippery, endlessly inventive, attractively nervy sound is apparent on many of Pipe's pieces.

Other traces, however, are also discernible: the tricksy speediness of Balkan music and the odd Eastern timbre can occasionally be heard. Overall, though, this is distinctive, highly original quartet music, addressed with musicianly verve and commitment by the agile Pipe and his energetically responsive band Í pianist Arthur Lea, bassist Larry Bartley and Brooklyn-born drummer Chris Vatalaro Í and as well as showcasing the leader's strengths as both composer and soloist, the album is a great calling card for a fine, vigorously interactive unit.

To purchase the album via MP3 digital download please visit Seb's artboo page.