Ondrej Pivec / Organic Quartet: Don't Get Ideas (2006)

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Published: June 5, 2006

Ondrej Pivec / Organic Quartet: Don't Get Ideas

The musicians who make up this "classic" organ-led small combo have technique and ideas in abundance. The music they make is a considerable distance from the grits 'n' gravy circuit with which such groups might once have been associated, and Ondrej Pivec's harmonic and melodic senses, in particular, are more akin to Larry Young than, say, Baby Face Willette. To hear Pivec on McCoy Tyner's "Inception," for example, is to witness a musician quite unselfconsciously mining a rich musical seam with a vocabulary he has fashioned for his own satisfaction.

Pivec's accurately titled "Just Chillin'" offers evidence that this is more than just a blowing group. While it has an air of sophistication, the piece is not by any means contrived, and guitarist Libor Smoldas turns in perhaps his best performance of the disc here. While his tone is entirely in keeping with the modern mainstream idiom, he tends to be more rhythmically assertive than a lot of the players he might cite as influences.

This is a musical statement by four young musicians who know their subject and indeed their instruments inside out. As such, it is perhaps most pertinent of all as a sign of things to come. As it stands, the musicians work their way through the familiar with both skill and aplomb.

Track Listing: Mr. Littleroot�s Green Room; Inception; Blues For Wendy; Humble Groove; Don�t Get Ideas; Quietude; Knick Knack; Just Chillin�; Pantheola; Lonely Grey.

Personnel: Jakub Dolezal; tenor saxophone; Ondrej Pivec: organ; Libor Smoldas: guitar; Tomas Hobzek: drums.

Record Label: Cube-Metier
Style: Straight-ahead/Mainstream

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Puttin'on the Ritz by ORGANIC Quartet, recorded in Ostrava Jazz Open.

Ondřej Pivec Organic Quartet, Noc s Andělem. V.P. This is a short 5minute shot from a TV Show called Noc s Andelem (Night with Angel), where Organic Quartet was awarded by Czech Musical Academy Awards in 2006 for CD "Don't Get Ideas." Composition by Jakub Dolezal, called V.P.

Ondřej Pivec Organic Quartet - Noc s Andělem This is from the same evening, just a bit longer. Titled "Nine Days Wonder," by Ondrej Pivec.

Ondřej Pivec Interview - Události v Kultuře April, 28, 2008. This is from Czech TV news report (Cultural events), just after the debut of new CD Overseason.

Ondřej Pivec Interview - Události v Kultuře, ČT24, March 2008 This is an interview in Czech TV, again, Cultural Events - the topic is about Ondrej Pivec's and Tomas Hobzek's trip to New York and subsequent making of the record Overseason.

Ondřej Pivec - ČT2 (Kultura.cz), March 2008 This is a short document and biography about Ondrej Pivec, the leading persona of Czech and European jazz music.

Song "Turkish Coffee," a latin tune with the sounds of hammond organ Recorded in Jazz Lounge u Stare Pani, Prague, Czech Republic.

Ladybird - solo. FatCat club, New York Recorded in New York, 2007.