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Chasin' the Jazz Gone By | 
 enlarge | Artist: Five Corners Quintet
Label: Milan Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $18.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 104765
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 36138
UPC: 731383613821
EAN: 0731383613821
ASIN: B000AQKUB8
Release Date: September 20, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Blue Cycles | | • | Trading Eights | | • | Interlope | | • | This Could Be The Start Of Something | | • | Straight Up | | • | Three Corners | | • | Case Study | | • | Lighthouse | | • | Before We Say Goodbye | | • | Unsquare Bossa | | • | The Devil Kicks | | • | Jamming With Mr. Hoagland | | • | Taxi Driver |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Chasin' the Jazz Gone By was recorded in jazz's classic spirit, no tech-funk attached...the way jazz was originally meant to be heard. Featuring world class guest vocalist Mark Murphy, the record consists of 13 fluidly reflective pieces, which often employ the talents of a 12 piece string and French horn ensemble as well as the experience, know-how, and soul of cross-generational jazz players including everyone from Blue Note recording artist Severi Pyysalo to young trumpet prodigy Jukka Eskola. If you don't feel anything while listening to this record, you're a stone. This is truly the future of jazz. Keepin' it real! MIlan. 2005.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nordic Nostalgia September 1, 2007
La nostalgia tira brutti scherzi, soprattutto se i nostalgici sono un manipolo di jazzisti finlandesi capitanati da un compositore e bandleader come Tuomas Kallio. Nostalgia di New York negli anni sessanta, del suono frusciante del vinile, dei dancefloor scatenati a ritmo di swing, degli assoli che non finiscono mai, delle notti calde e telluriche tra un Manhattan e un Martini, di una donna che ti osserva nel buio come una perla africana, di tutto cio che abbiamo vissuto nei nostri sogni e letto nei racconti di Truman Capote. La nostalgia di una voce che canta a un centimetro dal microfono di metallo e lo ingravida di parole, il desiderio di fare del Five Corners di Helsinki un remake di Times Square, hanno convinto Tuomas Kallio a portare Mark Murphy in Finlandia. Proprio Mark Murphy, il grande hipster di Rah (Riverside, 1961) e di That's how I love the blues con Clark Tery e Dick Hyman (Fantasy, 1962), il cantante che Ira Gitler defini "a sort of one-man Lambert, Hendricks and Ross". Tornato dal passato per cantare assieme a cinque ragazzi finlandesi d'altri tempi: cosi consapevolmente nostalgici da voler registrare tutto in analogico per ricreare ancor meglio, come se la loro musica non bastasse, il sound inconfondibile di quegli anni. La nostalgia tira scherzi fantastici.
Accessible as the music of today. March 10, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The Five Corners Quintet is the 50/60s modern jazz love child of Toumas Kallio and Ricky-Tick Records manager Antti Eerikaeinen with a reputation for producing dance-floor-friendly jazz.
Whilst we've been catching up with other Finnish exports (Timo Lassy, Dalindeo, Hot As Hel), FCQ are undoubtedly the coolest.
Originally, it was envisaged the project would release the odd single but the reaction to the first 10" releases, "The Devil Kicks", "Three Corners" and their signature tune "Trading Eights" was so positive, there was no doubt FCQ were going to go onto bigger and better.
In addition to the above-mentioned instrumentals, to get Mark Murphy to appearing on this album is a coup. They recreate the title track to his 1959 album "This Could Be The Start Of Something" (blimey, first Paul Anka and now jazz-swings!) along with the jazz-cat poetry of 'Jamming (With Mr. Hoagland) he transports us to the cool of the New York jazz scene of half a century ago.
Tuomas wanted 'an inspiring example' of how dance floor-friendly meets the musical craftsmanship of the past and at the same time, a polished contemporary production that is as easily accessible as the music of today.
Fine examples are the tracks the jazz dancers should check out, "Lighthouse", "Straight Up" and "Three Corners".
All the musicians are brilliant and all the usual suspects are present, Teppo Maekynen, Timo Lassy (Flute and Saxophones), Eero Koivistoinen (Tenor Saxophone), Jukka Eskola (Trumpet, Flugelhorn) and the super vibraphone of Severi Pyysalo.
Also, if you're into album covers featuring Finnish architecture, the photography and artwork of Eero Troberg, Junani Lassander and Antti Eerikaeinen is on a par with the musicianship inside the jacket.
So no samplers, DJs or other digital wizardry, FCQ are truly analogically authentic.
 Top jazz March 31, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The results of this amazing project is incredible. Straight to the heart and soul!
I'm waiting for another project.
Arjan
Modern take on the golden age of Jazz September 30, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Five Corners Quintet is a Helsinki-based postmodern jazz outfit influenced by early sixties straight ahead and latin jazz. Led by producer Tuomas Kallio the Five Corners Quintet is a new extension of the highly acclaimed Nuspirit Helsinki collective.
The Five Corners Quintet has made an fabulous first album featuring Mark Murphy and Okou. The quintet members are the top players from Finland, including drummer Teppo Maekynen who has been voted the best drummer in Finland for several years. I have listened this record so many times , that I lost count. I wasn't much into Jazz before, but after this album I found an keen interest. I also went to see them live at Flow '05 festival where the atmosphere was more alike rave than jazz and crowd demanded several encores. This album is worth every cent!
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