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Lynette Westendorf and Animal Dreams : Surrounded by Green
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Unique and creative avant-jazz compositions
Genre: Jazz: Free Jazz
Release Date: 1998
Surrounded by Green Record Label: Lynette Westendorf
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Surrounded by Green 12:11 $0.99
Chekhov's Eyes 7:54 $0.99
Albanton and Pythagoras (& postlude) 10:22 $0.99
Bar Talk 7:56 $0.99
Veering Toward Purple 11:07 $0.99
A Circle of Bears 15:03 $0.99
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Reviews of "Surrounded by Green:"

"...intelligent...emotional and intuitive."--Peter Monaghan, Earshot Jazz, Seattle, WA.

"Lovely colors and textures."--composer Bill Smith.

"Complex and richly emotive compositions."--The Tentacle, Seattle, WA.

"Westendorf...a seriously adventurous compositional talent."
--Creative Music Guild, Portland, OR.

"An amazingly eclectic collection of truly unique compositions."--Victory Review.

"Westendorf's colorful and complex, yet completely accessible music offers a rare harmonic convergence: a post-modern brain with a prehistoric heart."--Jim Olding, KBOO-FM, Portland, OR.

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REVIEWS

Cool and rarefied
author: Steve Grecco
Lynette Westendorf's SURROUNDED BY GREEN is as cool and as rarefied as the air that caresses Machu Picchu. Hear it and ascend.
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Unlike any other jazz album I can think of.
author: yeti research
Although it has some references to certain past masters, I can't really think of another jazz album that sounds quite like this one. Not necessarily free jazz like the "squealing energy" of Albert Ayler or Peter Brotzmann, closer to the controlled flow of Ornette Coleman but with a focus on themes from the likes of Bartok. Interesting arrangements, solid musicianship: a movie for the mind.
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