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Kali Z. Fasteau/ Kidd Jordan: Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival
ByNumbering Archie Shepp, Rashied Ali and William Parker among her many collaborators over a lengthy globetrotting career, Fasteau brings a microtonal world music sensibility to the largely improvised proceedings, showcasing her talent on mizmar (an Arabic double reed instrument), piano, flute, cello, violin, voice, drums, synthesizer and soprano saxophone. Recent Vision Festival honoree Jordan rightly gets equal billing and is indeed the reason this disc sticks out from the pack. As with his masterful Palm of Soul (AUM Fidelity, 2006), Jordan thrives away from the free jazz tenor comfort zone, adroitly dealing with everything thrown at him. Drummer Newman Taylor Baker adds a rhythmic spine when one is needed or sensitively colors the ensembles, but is largely a restrained voice.
Among the notable tracks are "Received Wisdom," where cello and tenor flames commingle around the clattering percussion before morphing into an abstracted blues with an extemporized unison ending, and the ballad "Sibelius Suite," which pitches Jordan's assertive preaching against shimmering synthesizer, until the saxophonist concludes with a sublime soul rending falsetto. Saving the best to last, the arresting saxophone intertwining of "Sound Science" features Fasteau's pure-toned soprano in a satisfying conclusion to this far ranging set.
Track Listing
Sound Tranceport; Trancendance; Reed Trance Plant; Received Wisdom; Sibelius Suite; Talking Trance; Violit Violins; Exponential Time; Sound Science.
Personnel
Kali Z. Fasteau
multi-instrumentalistKali Z. Fasteau: mizmar, piano, nai flute, cello, synthesizer, voice, violin, drums, soprano saxophone; Edward "Kidd" Jordan: tenor saxophone; Newman Taylor Baker: drum set and talking drum.
Album information
Title: Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: Flying Note Records
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About Kali Z. Fasteau
Instrument: Multi-instrumentalist
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