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Of What Remains
Melissa Pipe
Label: Odd Sound Records
Released: 2023
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Tracks
Complainte du vent; La part des anges; Ici, ainsi; Fragment no. 2; Apothecium; Complaint du vent (reprise); Day; Puudutus.
Personnel
Melissa Pipe
saxophone, baritoneLex French
trumpetPhilippe Cote
composer / conductorGeoff Lapp
pianoSolon McDade
bassMili Hong
drumsAdditional Personnel / Information
Melissa Pipe: bassoon; Phillippe Cote: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Michael Sundell: contrabassoon (4, 5, 9).
Album Description
"Of What Remains" is Montreal baritone saxophonist and bassoonist Melissa Pipe’s first release as a leader. It explores ideas around temporality: the shifting of time, form and being. The pieces form a whole, joining together fragmentation, symbiosis, distillation, evaporation, and transience, while looking at what is left behind, or what remains. “The sextet's instrumentation allows me to write in both traditional jazz ensemble configuration (trumpet and saxes with the rhythm section) and in a “chamber jazz” format,” says Pipe about choosing the unique instrumentation and writing for her sextet. “The additional colour, timbre and orchestration possibilities of the bassoon and the bass clarinet are particularly effective in infusing elements of classical and folkloric music into the pieces”. Her compositions here range from moody, atmospheric pieces to more traditional styles like a minor blues, but most tend to be on the darker, introspective side. “I write what I hear. Sometimes it starts with a bass line, a progression. Sometimes it’s a melody. The pieces on this album use a variety of jazz and classical compositional devices and techniques, but beyond the theoretical framework that I use to build its structures, harmonies, textures, etc. the most important thing for me is that it has to have soul. It has to be something my ear wants to hear. At times that can be something more modern, and at others something steeped in the jazz tradition: to me it goes beyond genres, it’s all about the soul of the thing.”
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- Of What Remains by Hrayr Attarian
- Of What Remains by Dan McClenaghan
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Instrument: Saxophone, baritone
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