More Cutouts

More Cutouts: Roscoe Mitchell

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2000

More Cutouts represents archival material originally recorded in Florence, Italy 1981, by the trio of saxophonist and leader of the date Roscoe Mitchell, percussionist Tani Tabbal and trumpeter Hugh Ragin. On “Song For The Little Feet –Take A”, the musicians execute pure, innocent motifs in alternating fashion as Ragin and Mitchell produce simple themes that could easily be reformulated into nursery rhymes or songs geared for children. The musicians engage Bop-ish lines in altogether animated fashion on the title track, ...