Anyone seen/heard this before?

[treepotato]

i found this cd cover is it a unicycle song/album? i found it in google search for 'unicycle'

[UniBrier]

Looks like its a Jazz Album.

From a JAZZ PLAYER MAGAZINE review at http://www.tedvibes.com/subpgs/review.html#uni :

The title tune, Unicycle Man, is a clever piece which relates to Piltzecker's philosophy regarding his art. He has been riding a unicycle for almost thirty years. There's a great photo on the CD cover of him riding. In the liner notes he writes. "Balancing is a series of corrections. It is an interesting place to be - a pleasant blend of danger and control." I think that's why I personally am drawn to Piltzecker's music. The composition is characterized by start and stop figures and features a very inventive arrangement. After a great vibraphone solo, the rhythm section starts to groove (even eighths) behind the tenor. On Mintzer's third chorus, the start and stop rhythm pattern recurs, which eventually sets up a double-time swing with walking bass. Then the tenor is left to improvise with drums only, followed by another ensemble figure which catapults into the piano solo over swing time and walking bass. An interlude of the start and stop figure features the drums and percussion ( which is again a very important element here). I love the low dense final ending chord.


Ironic that CADENCE MAGAZINE doesn't get it:

Vibist/Unicyclist Piltzecker asserts that the one-wheeled bicycle presents a metaphor of equilibrium for manythings in life.


You'd think a magazine with cadence would figure out it not a bicycle no matter how you describe it.

[treepotato]

"The composition is characterized by start and stop figures and features a very inventive arrangement. After a great vibraphone solo, the rhythm section starts to groove (even eighths) behind the tenor. On Mintzer's third chorus, the start and stop rhythm pattern recurs, which eventually sets up a double-time swing with walking bass. Then the tenor is left to improvise with drums only, followed by another ensemble figure which catapults into the piano solo over swing time and walking bass. An interlude of the start and stop figure features the drums and percussion ( which is again a very important element here). I love the low dense final ending chord."

-Quote from Brier-

well you totally lost me there! i'm no musical talent or understanding at all! thanks for your reply though i will chekc ou the site

[JJuggle]

Originally posted by treepotato
i found this cd cover is it a unicycle song/album? i found it in google search for 'unicycle'

This item is, in fact, available from Unicycle.com although not Unicycle.uk.com.

Also, as a general rule I find it useful to never pay any attention to writings about jazz that are written by people knowledgeable about jazz particularly those passionate about it. You thought cosmology was dense, this stuff...well forget about it.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ