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Guardians by Tom Christensen

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Album Title: New York School
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2005

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About the Album

"Horn multi-instrumentalist Tom Christensen's third release in six years is a pleasure from start to finish because it manages to simultaneously embrace thought and emotion, interweaving the two in constantly evolving, often unpredictable ways. Some of the starkest and most penetrating moments come through on "In Memory of My Feelings," which pairs bass clarinets and soprano saxophone with deep, ringing, ritualistic percussion, communicating a sense of melancholy loss matched with a seemingly paradoxical feeling of rebirth. One of the best records of 2005." Nils Jacobson, AllAboutJazz.com

Tracks

Guardians; Further Digressions; In Memory of My Feelings; Asleep and Sleeping With Them; Your Strange Son; Oranges; Little Elegy

Personnel

Tom Christensen

saxophone, tenor

Additional Personnel

Tom Christensen (tenor and soprano sax, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute, wood flute), Walt Weiskopf (tenor and soprano sax, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet), Kermit Driscoll (bass), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)

Reviews

New York School by AAJ Staff
New York School by Jerry D'Souza
New York School by John Kelman

Date featured

February 6, 2006

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