Obbligato (album)

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Released 2014 Studio Systems Two, Brooklyn Obbligato(2014) Hotel Grief(2015) Release date 2014 Label Intakt Records		Recorded February 28, 2013 Length 52:04 Artist Tom Rainey Producer Tom Rainey Genre Jazz

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Obbligato is the third album by American jazz drummer Tom Rainey, which was recorded in 2013 and released on the Swiss Intakt label. He leads a quintet with the same lineup as the collective LARK quartet (Rainey on drums, Ralph Alessi on trumpet, Ingrid Laubrock on sax and Kris Davis on piano), expanded by Drew Gress on bass. The album features a selection of standards, most of them taken from the Great American Songbook.

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Reception

The Down Beat review by Peter Margasak says that "The most satisfying quality of the session is hearing the band members expertly blend together, suggesting the agile and empathic lines of West Coast jazz applied to fuzzy melodic shapes."

The All About Jazz review by Troy Collins states "Though unconstrained by formal concerns, the musicians always maintain some key aspects of the underlying structure of each piece, be it melody, harmony or rhythm. Such awareness of the tradition enriches the depth of their interpretations, making Obbligato one of the most persuasive modern recordings of established standards in some time."

In a review for JazzTimes, Lloyd Sachs notes that "While the melodies are sometimes minimized, sometimes disguised, they always illuminate the core of the tunes."