Ireng Maulana All Stars featuring Ermy Kullit

This teeming with color album gets on with a sweet bluesy atmosphere of Blueberry Hill as the starter song. A celebration of jazz country music sparks in Mimpi, decorated with rapid improvised line of piano. Hello Dolly shows its distinctive style by the time Ireng Maulana arranges the song gracefully, of which uses designated 4/4 form beat eligible to listeners’ ears. The particular instrumental Tak Ingin Sendiri involves impregnable wind instruments as means of improvise, trumpet and tenor saxophone, both of which are played side by sidein the exact time, not to mention rag piano style and the way Ermy Kullit conducts with short stressing vocal structure. In How Insensitive, it is so vivid that Ermy’s strength in her vibe, soulful voice is of great consequence. She happens to produce her identical wet sighing in many occurrences, making this song feels very intimate, appropriate for jazz lone listeners. 

Apparently Ireng favors rag time jazz subsection toward playing frantic tempo songs, complete with its well known instrumental accompaniments such as piano, banjo, flute, and nevertheless a group of wind instruments. Chewin The Rag exposes best the witty side of the composition of the so called specific genre. With numerous appearance of inserting differing phrases from famous joyful songs, Chewin The Rag caters for exhilarating arrangement, that only well experienced jazz musician like Ireng can have the competence to shape such tunes. As Time Goes By is brought with deliberate intonation, despite a slight variation in vocal stressing. On the other hand, the band gives a sense of cool jazz attitude to the composition, a blend of decent ongoing. Cherokee poises as an upbeat song that does not cope with rag times other previous songs has had, though some leftovers are still rooted up, as the sound of clarinet still dances swiftly, along saxophone and trumpet blowing up excessively at about precise moment. Ireng, together with the band, once again astonish the listeners by descending the tempo right at them end of the song, and it affects the general feeling in that the rhythm goes smoother and most of all, more swinging. Another bluesy tones gets in the way through Basin Street Blues, and now baritone saxophone leads the way in confidence. Together with interchanging rhythms in the process, the melody remains enchanting and stable, able to adapt with multiple conditions. This is the interesting point of Basin Street Blues. And get your feet ready for another mind-blowing rag invasion in Red River View. Once one has undergone the journey from the very beginning of this album, he/she will get used to it. 

One Latin jazz representation takes place with Quizas, Quizas. Wind instruments still dominate the free space to draw colorful melodies. And the notorious old saying “seeing is believing” makes up the idea to this album. It is very arguable that the core soul of this album does not lays in the opening tracks, or in the middle, but in the end of the song. It feels like all the energy of this album is summed up in the last track, The Entertainer, patiently waiting for the perfect time to explode. As we know, the song is the epitome of rag time style, and the melodic piano line is the unrivaled star forever. The band have helped marking the splendor of domestic jazz to public.