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DUOS/TRIOS/QUARTETS
VOCALS/BIG BANDS
ENSEMBLES FOR
EVERY OCCASION
"The Luna Quartet's “new standards” are, as one might infer from
the album's paradoxical
and punning title, all their own material.For the group's third album, pianist Steve Moon and bassist
Damon Lee have divvied up songwriting duties, netting three apiece.
Guitarist Ian Scherer, a new addition
to the quartet, contributes one.
...steady emphasis on repetition and concision, the ensemble's songs
display an affinity with mainstream pop.
Not that this is off-putting
or unwelcome. To the contrary. The pop quality is what gets a song like
“Miss B's Logic” circling in one's head; the jazz quality is what enables
it to set up long-term residence.
”Reflections” and “Passage,” the album's requisite ballads, are delicate
and balanced. Both have
a real sense of propulsion and a narrative arc,
somehow in keeping with the proper sense of a ballad;
Lee draws out his
bow for the latter. The puckish “Now and Never” belongs, in the cosmic
scheme of things,
to one of the great swing crooners. It just needs
appropriately playful lyrics.
It's far too early to tell whether any of these seven tracks will
enter the jazz canon alongside charts
such as “Polka Dots and Moonbeams”
and “'Round Midnight,” but at any rate,
they should go some way toward
firmly establishing the young group as a talented
and authentic voice
within the San Francisco jazz scene."
- Michael Ricci
- All About Jazz