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Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes
by Dan McClenaghan
The first four releases from Pi Recordings feature brilliant but underappreciated veteran jazz giants: Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet. But the label also looks to jazz's future with Your Life Flashes by Fieldwork, a collective trio of inspired and vibrant young jazz men.The group's leader (unofficial, perhaps, but he wrote ten of the twelve tunes) is pianist Vijay Iyer, who sounds like a man possessed here. He's from the percussive school of piano. ...
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by AAJ Staff
A good portion of the Fieldwork trio's music is composed, revealing an originality and maturity in their individual and collective playing of complex yet approachable free sounding pieces for even the most “mainstream" of listeners. Having separately performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, “Butch" Morris, Anthony Braxton, fellow Pi recording artist Henry Threadgill, and Andrew Hill, to Steve Coleman and Cecil Taylor (whom all three have played with) - Fieldwork is truly a band much greater than the sum ...
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