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Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens: Two Cities album review by Jerry D'Souza, published on January 18, Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

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Apr 25,  · Perhaps it’s too obvious to focus on geography to preface a review of a jazz album, but the title of Fast Citizens’ new Delmark release Read More "Aram Shelton’s Fast Citizens: Two Cities" Aram Shelton’s Fast Citizens: Two Cities. The cellist’s own “VRC #9” peculiarly imbues the minimalism of Reich and Glass with.

Fast Citizens may encapsulate a significant shift that's been occurring in creative improvised music over the last few decades, with the collective nature of music by a sextet of musicians who have been around long enough to qualify, more-or-less, as veterans.. This is such an integral aspect of what they do, they make the case that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

If you're wondering whether or not there is a connection between Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens and Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens, the answer is a definite "yes." Fast Citizens are a collective, and they have different leaders at different times. While Jackson was the leader on the release Ready Everyday, Shelton is in charge on the date Two Cities (whose title was derived from the 7/

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Their first recording, Ready Everyday (Delmark, ) featured Jackson as the primary composer; on their sophomore effort, Two Cities, Shelton assumes the role of principle writer and bandleader. Though Shelton currently lives in Oakland, California (hence the album title) the group’s longstanding rapport yields a unified sensibility, with.

The Fast Citizens have a rotating leader chair. This time Aram Shelton has taken the reins as main composer, focusing on orchestration and structural variety to present a stylistically diverse album that includes hard swing, lush ballads, high-energy free improvisation, modern composition and Sun-Ra-inspired grooves.5/5(1).