Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch - What Is Known (2010) torrent

Clean Feed Records: CF192
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=330

* Aaron Bennett: tenor saxophone
* John Finkbeiner: guitar
* Lisa Mezzacappa: double bass
* Vijay Anderson: drums

http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/projects_quartet.html

Reviews
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by Grego Applegate Edwards

Bassist Lisa Mezzacappa had a good idea when she thought of what she would do
for her first album as leader: she took some musical fragments played by artists
she had especially admired, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Dolphy, Ayer, Ornette,
Kirk, Sun Ra, and built performance pieces out of them. There are also good
cover versions of Captain Beefheart's "Lick My Decals Off, Baby," (it stays in
the mind) and Steve McCall's "I'll Be Right Here Waiting." Then she chose to
work with musicians she had long associated with: Aaron Bennett, tenor, John
Finkbeiner, electric guitar, and Vijay Anderson on the drums.

Into the studio and now out comes What is Known (Clean Feed 192) by Lisa
Mezzacappa and Bait & Switch.

The pieces hang together well. The band does too, via better living through
(musical) chemistry and because in part they know each other musically from long
association.

Bennett's tenor is raucous and energized, Finkbeiner plays some abstract and
electric lines worth your ears' attention, Lisa M. has a forcefully strong tone
and convinces with what she does. Vijay plays as a group member. What he does is
right and it's thought through.

Now perhaps one could say that about alot of bands but in this case the material
Lisa has put together moulds the end result to be smart, varied and quite
stimulating.

This is a really nice first album and it plays repeatedly in my musical
listening cycle right now. Definitely recommended for some worthwhile and very
modern jazz improv!

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by Stef

by Rachel Swan
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/from-bass-to-mezzacappa/Content?oid=1878964

by Massimo Ricci

by Troy Collins
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD31/PoD31MoreMoments4.html

di Vincenzo Roggero (it)
http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=5734

por Sergio Piccirilli (es)
http://elintruso.com/2010/10/04/lisa-mezzacappa%E2%80%99s-bait-switch-what-is-known/