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Suite for Helen F.

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc 1: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Disc 2: Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

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Ivo Perelman: Suite for Helen F.

Read "Suite for Helen F." reviewed by Jeff Stockton


You may have heard that the compact disc is dying, but you wouldn’t know it from this prodigious 2-CD set of over 100 minutes of relentless saxophonic stress-testing and rhythmic sensory overload. From his debut in 1989 through the late ‘90s, Ivo Perelman was wildly prolific and exhaustively documented, with more than 20 recordings appearing on ...

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Ivo Perelman Double Trio: Suite for Helen F.

Read "Suite for Helen F." reviewed by John Kelman


Free jazz can be a dicey thing. When one is literally pulling everything out of the ether, one runs the risk of creating work that may have visceral impact but has little in the way of a sense of inner logic and inner construction. For fifteen years or so, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman has almost exclusively ...

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Ivo Perelman Double Trio: Suite for Helen F.

Read "Suite for Helen F." reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


My initial encounter with the opening cut of Suite for Helen evoked images of a man blowing saxophone with a nest of small stinging insects busy swarming inside his pants. To carry the image further, this man, though painfully beset, is resolute in a singular pursuit of his sonic mission—blowing the guts and maybe even the ...


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