Selected press for Hearts & Minds.
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“4.5 stars. Agreeable without being compromising, the album is tuneful enough to appeal to fans of mainstream jazz and adventurous enough for disciples of creative music. That’s a total victory.”
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“4.5 stars. Paul Giallorenzo’s keyboards propel this no-wave gem (Stocky) into a bizarre plane where it’s catchy, jerky riff could jump-start a whole new genre. Seriously, this brilliant, bizarre, brief little track is potentially monumental. Don’t let this moment pass…The band draws from a wealth of diverse sources and the combination of these elements is perfectly balanced. Highly recommended.”
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“The result is music that can lurch like Thelonious Monk dancing in those light-up sneakers the kids wear, or swing with an ease that belies the fact that someone is playing against the beat or around the tune.”
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“The movement of the harrumphing ‘An Unfortunate Lack of Role Models’–deadpan track titles are matched by dry humor in the music–suggests an H.G. Wells-era robot trying to do ballet, with Rosaly toggling between hyperactive accents and lurching explosions.”
Read More »“…Drawing inspiration from the astral explorations of vintage Sun Ra but relocating them here in gritty Chicago.”
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“4 stars. When the Chicago trio of Jason Stein, Paul Giallorenzo, and Frank Rosaly, known as Hearts and Minds plays music, Sun Ra smiles from somewhere interplanetary.”
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“Having figured out how to make an improvised music trio function as if it was a heavy metal trio on this disc are three Chicago-based players who have already established themselves as jazz standard bearers. Like movie thriller makers who demonstrate that there’s a subversive edge in their program no matter how much in-your-face brutality is exposed, Jason Stein, Paul Giallorenzo, and Frank Rosaly are too attuned to sophisticated sounds to affect the jejune properties of simpler strategies.”
– Ken Waxman
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“This self-titled record presents nine closely knitted and grubby pieces gliding between headstrong melanges and jaunty, latter-day Sun Ra grooviness.”
– Clifford Allen
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