{"id":845,"date":"2012-02-13T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T06:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/?p=845"},"modified":"2013-01-30T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T07:10:36","slug":"cd-review-menagerie-dreams-by-thomas-chapin-trio-knitting-factory-works-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Menagerie Dreams&#8221; by Thomas Chapin Trio (Knitting Factory Works 167)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a9<\/strong>Laurence M Svirchev<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Chapin-Menagerie-Dream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-846\" title=\"Chapin Menagerie Dream\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Chapin-Menagerie-Dream-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Chapin-Menagerie-Dream-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/misterioso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Chapin-Menagerie-Dream.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Menagerie Dreams<\/em> is a barn-yard affair with squawking chickens, honking\u00a0 hogs, and swaggering monkeys boozing it up. The Chapin Trio (Mario Pavone, bass; Michael Sarin, drums) form a frenetic company, playing with an abandon that threatens to tip them right over the musical edge. But they never lean too far past the fulcrum point: everything they do swings like it came from easy street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take <em>A Drunken Monkey<\/em>. The monkey starts off calmly enough with a dark arco riff from Pavone and Sarin rolling sticks on skins. Chapin&#8217;s melodic line creates a dance whose tempos incessantly increases. Sarin enhances the feeling with a rhythm on the toms that is broken only occasionally with a shot on the high hat. Like the monkey, the music may be intoxicated, but it is never out of control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chapin is a marvellous interpreter of <em>Daydream<\/em> (Strayhorn-Ellington). Pavone walks the bass line with a country-mile cadence and Chapin makes his entrance with some squealing back-woods ya-hoos. The whole tune seems to bit of a parody on the velvety-smooth approach that Johnny Hodges would take. Chapin knows his Hodges, but it is equally clear he dreams different dreams than the Rabbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the addition of poetry by Vernon Frazer and a guest appearance on two cuts by altoist John Zorn, this is an energy filled, spinny CD that makes one long to see Chapin live again on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Originally published in 5\/4 Magazine Seattle, 1996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\">\u00a9Laurence M Svirchev<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Menagerie Dreams is a barn-yard affair with squawking chickens, honking hogs, and swaggering monkeys boozing it up. The Chapin Trio (Mario Pavone, bass; Michael Sarin, drums) form a frenetic company, playing with an abandon that threatens to tip them right over the musical edge. But they never <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/?p=845\">&#8220;Menagerie Dreams&#8221; by Thomas Chapin Trio (Knitting Factory Works 167)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Chapin-Menagerie-Dream.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterioso.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}