Playground (Rob Mazurek album)
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| Playground | ||||
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| Released | February 10, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | March 1 & 2, 1996 and January 6 & 7, 1997 | |||
| Studio | Idful, Chicago, Illinois | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 68:06 | |||
| Label | Delmark DE-503 | |||
| Producer | Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker | |||
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Playground is an album by Robert Mazurek Chicago Underground Orchestra which was released on the Delmark label in 1998.[1][2][3]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [4] |
In his review for AllMusic, Rick Watrous states: "A revelation. Cornetist Mazurek and his Chicago Underground Orchestra create some of the freshest sounds of late-'90s jazz. Mazurek and Parker's original tunes have the loose improvisatory feel of Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock's late-'60s compositions, giving soloists free reign [sic] to strut their stuff. ... Imaginative use of instrumental colors and combinations prevail throughout the album".[4]
On All About Jazz Jack Bowers said: "This is an interesting and varied session... Mazurek has abandoned neither melody, harmony nor rhythm, and the band's hard-bop origins can also be discerned from time to time ... Throughout, Rob and the band shrewdly employ uncommon elements - the sound of a glockenspiel or bamboo flute, for example - to accentuate their singular point of view. Everyone is on the same page, and those who fancy Jazz that veers slightly off the beaten path without self-indulgent cerebralism should find this picturesque Playground well-suited to whatever musical byways they might care to pursue"[5]