Review

Varieties of Jazz Styles In The Upper Hall

………”To constructe the comp is almost solely done by the drummer,whos shamanistic debate with the saxophonist is slipping the rhytm section into interesting tracks.The composer and main star of the band is left to play the second part when the drummer Arvydas Jofe throws into the ring all his will of performing.Shinkarenko is trying to have different kind of styles in his compositions and so the piece started with painfully crying repetitions is turning Ave Maria-interpretation into far eastern kind of a game.Trio’s style is varying a lot.It is including almost totally spoken pieces,latino rhytms and traditional sessions,too.In base tunes you can find influences of Bob Marley and the blues formate is also flipping into jazz nicely, when Vytas Labutis shows the anxciety by playing soprano and alto saxophone at the same time.But sometimes it feels like the showing of the abilities of different machines is overcoming in priority the compositions and the really skillful players.”

                                                                                                            Teemu Hirvonen

                                                                                                            26.05.2002

                                                                                                            KAINUUN SANOMAT