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Mississippi 1955 Confessional by Benjamin Boone
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Album Title: Caught in the Rhythm
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
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About the Album
For a decade now, saxophonist, composer, and Fulbright scholar Benjamin Boone has artfully merged the works of vital, contemporary poets with the in-the-moment creations of astute, innovative jazz musicians, first through his two critically acclaimed recordings with U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine, and most recently with 2020’s 'The Poets Are Gathering,' providing a striking platform for the spoken word. The dance of imagery and rumination set in motion by Patrick Sylvain's "Caught in the Rhythm" supplies a running theme for this exploding kaleidoscope of diverse voices, with Ambrose Akinmusire, Greg Osby, Kenny Werner and Ben Monder being a few of the interacting musical voices, offering an aural front page of dispatches, reveries, declamations, and narratives from past and present. Leave it to music, melding with shadow and light, to make the case for poetry. That’s what this album—and its varied supplications to the muse—are for. "...important poetic works in the context of sound and emotive playing. There is no line of demarcation, only artistic unity afloat in a solution of truth." - All About Jazz
Tracks
Mississippi 1955 Confessional (T.R. Hummer); HoodWitches [Redux] (Faylita Hicks); Caught in the Rhythm (Patrick Sylvain, feat. Ambrose Akinmusire); Art Pepper (Edward Hirsch, feat. Greg Osby); We Bring the Soul to It (Faylita Hicks); Poem 836 / The Diviner (Kimiko Hahn); The Case Against Poetry (Edward Hirsch); Anger Management (T.R. Hummer); ASMR Sleepcast: The Night After Being Released from the Rural County Jail (Faylita Hicks); Olivia Suggests All the Women in Class Imagine Male Sexuality (Kimiko Hahn); Mercy (Tyehimba Jess); Dawg, What the Fuck Ima Do With a $20? (Faylita Hicks); You'll Be Sorry (T.R. Hummer)
Personnel
Benjamin Boone
saxophoneKimiko Hahn
poet / spoken wordFaylita Hicks
poet / spoken wordEdward Hirsch
poet / spoken wordT. R. Hummer
poet / spoken wordTyehimba Jess
poet / spoken wordPatrick Sylvain
poet / spoken word
Ambrose Akinmusire
trumpet
Greg Osby
saxophone
Kenny Werner
piano
Corcoran Holt
bass
Ari Hoenig
drums
Ben Monder
guitar
Eyal Maoz
guitar
Hashem Assadullahi
saxophone
Peter Brendler
bass
John Bishop
drumsKevin Person, Jr.
pianoPhilip Sarkisian
bass, electricAdditional Personnel
Mckenna Reeve: drums; Jonovan Cooper: tenor saxophone; Max Hembd: trumpet; Francisco Torres: trombone; Stefan Poetzsch: violin; Rodrigo Dalla: congas & triangle
Reviews
- Caught in the Rhythm by Paul Rauch
Date featured
September 7, 2023
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