Sunday Jazz Selections
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jazzy_daveWell, jazz and improv and the boundaries of the genre -
John Butcher - Calls From a Rusty Cage
WIRE 299 - Jan 2009: "In 2006, UK promoters Arika invited John Butcher to tour a number of out of the way spaces in Scotland. The venues, selected for their extreme acoustic properties, included a mausoleum, a wartime fuel storage tank and a cave. This resulting album grows out of the saxophonist's interest in escaping the acoustic confines of conventional venues - work with resonant spaces is documented on the earlier The Geometry of Sentiment and Cavern with Nightlife. Butcher plays tenor and soprano saxophones, sometimes adding feedback and amplification. Such site-specific performances are unrepeatable, of course, but the CD shows that you didn't have to be there to get what he's doing."
Location recordings from Scotland and Orkney, June 2006
Anthony Braxton - Composition 34
Evan Parker - The Eleventh Hour, Pt. 4
The Eleventh Hour (2005)
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth offering by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on ECM. The ensemble here numbers 11 members, six of whom are electronic sound sculptors and sound processors, with the remainder -- including Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton -- are free jazz and new music improvisers. This piece, in five parts, was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in Glasgow, where the album was recorded. Free improv of an intense variety kicks off the first section with live acoustic instrumentation in the foreground and sonics are slipped forward and backward through the dialogue. As the piece develops, silence, ambience, and repetition play more and more of a role, as new modes and routes are proposed and integrated through the sections as each "real" instrument is allowed its own free play, and then dialogue, in duet and trio engagements with others. The final five minutes of this work is one of the most ominous and tense dronescapes, punctuated by high-pitched industrial sounds and offering a mood of pure foreboding, and even dread. It's dynamic, dramatic, and utterly unsettling, leaving the listener spellbound once the recording has drifted into silence. [Allmusic.com]
The Eleventh Hour (2005)
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth offering by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on ECM. The ensemble here numbers 11 members, six of whom are electronic sound sculptors and sound processors, with the remainder -- including Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton -- are free jazz and new music improvisers. This piece, in five parts, was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in Glasgow, where the album was recorded. Free improv of an intense variety kicks off the first section with live acoustic instrumentation in the foreground and sonics are slipped forward and backward through the dialogue. As the piece develops, silence, ambience, and repetition play more and more of a role, as new modes and routes are proposed and integrated through the sections as each "real" instrument is allowed its own free play, and then dialogue, in duet and trio engagements with others. The final five minutes of this work is one of the most ominous and tense dronescapes, punctuated by high-pitched industrial sounds and offering a mood of pure foreboding, and even dread. It's dynamic, dramatic, and utterly unsettling, leaving the listener spellbound once the recording has drifted into silence. [Allmusic.com]
Chicago Underground Trio - Quail
Steve Lacy Seven - Clichés
Bass -- Jean-Jacques Avenel
Cello, Violin, Voice -- Irène Aebi
Percussion -- Oliver Johnson, Sherry Margolin, Cyrille Few and his friend
Piano -- Bobby Few
Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone -- Steve Potts
Soprano Saxophone, Written-By -- Steve Lacy
Trombone -- George Lewis
hat hut (1999) hatOLOGY 536 (recorded 1982)
Enjoy
John Butcher - Calls From a Rusty Cage
WIRE 299 - Jan 2009: "In 2006, UK promoters Arika invited John Butcher to tour a number of out of the way spaces in Scotland. The venues, selected for their extreme acoustic properties, included a mausoleum, a wartime fuel storage tank and a cave. This resulting album grows out of the saxophonist's interest in escaping the acoustic confines of conventional venues - work with resonant spaces is documented on the earlier The Geometry of Sentiment and Cavern with Nightlife. Butcher plays tenor and soprano saxophones, sometimes adding feedback and amplification. Such site-specific performances are unrepeatable, of course, but the CD shows that you didn't have to be there to get what he's doing."
Location recordings from Scotland and Orkney, June 2006
Anthony Braxton - Composition 34
Evan Parker - The Eleventh Hour, Pt. 4
The Eleventh Hour (2005)
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth offering by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on ECM. The ensemble here numbers 11 members, six of whom are electronic sound sculptors and sound processors, with the remainder -- including Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton -- are free jazz and new music improvisers. This piece, in five parts, was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in Glasgow, where the album was recorded. Free improv of an intense variety kicks off the first section with live acoustic instrumentation in the foreground and sonics are slipped forward and backward through the dialogue. As the piece develops, silence, ambience, and repetition play more and more of a role, as new modes and routes are proposed and integrated through the sections as each "real" instrument is allowed its own free play, and then dialogue, in duet and trio engagements with others. The final five minutes of this work is one of the most ominous and tense dronescapes, punctuated by high-pitched industrial sounds and offering a mood of pure foreboding, and even dread. It's dynamic, dramatic, and utterly unsettling, leaving the listener spellbound once the recording has drifted into silence. [Allmusic.com]
The Eleventh Hour (2005)
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth offering by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on ECM. The ensemble here numbers 11 members, six of whom are electronic sound sculptors and sound processors, with the remainder -- including Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton -- are free jazz and new music improvisers. This piece, in five parts, was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in Glasgow, where the album was recorded. Free improv of an intense variety kicks off the first section with live acoustic instrumentation in the foreground and sonics are slipped forward and backward through the dialogue. As the piece develops, silence, ambience, and repetition play more and more of a role, as new modes and routes are proposed and integrated through the sections as each "real" instrument is allowed its own free play, and then dialogue, in duet and trio engagements with others. The final five minutes of this work is one of the most ominous and tense dronescapes, punctuated by high-pitched industrial sounds and offering a mood of pure foreboding, and even dread. It's dynamic, dramatic, and utterly unsettling, leaving the listener spellbound once the recording has drifted into silence. [Allmusic.com]
Chicago Underground Trio - Quail
Steve Lacy Seven - Clichés
Bass -- Jean-Jacques Avenel
Cello, Violin, Voice -- Irène Aebi
Percussion -- Oliver Johnson, Sherry Margolin, Cyrille Few and his friend
Piano -- Bobby Few
Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone -- Steve Potts
Soprano Saxophone, Written-By -- Steve Lacy
Trombone -- George Lewis
hat hut (1999) hatOLOGY 536 (recorded 1982)
Enjoy
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