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Tony Jones - Saxophone
As an art form, free jazz is often associated with honking, screaming, fiercely extroverted solos. But in the hands of tenor saxophonist Tony Jones, free improvisation can also explore introspective inner spaces. On his beatific new recording Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, his music murmurs, croons, chants and sighs, sustaining a becalmed but intensely alert mood from beginning to end. Featuring master drummer Kenny Wollesen and exploratory violinist Charles Burnham, the project brings together three long-time comrades. In many ways, the unusual instrumentation gave birth to the album, as Wollesen steps away from the trap set to create resonant textures with a collection of bells that inspired these captivating soundscapes. The music unfolds as a series of aural investigations, as Jones and Burnham leave plenty of space for the metallic notes to ring and fade. The resulting music - patient, intimate and unmistakably jazzcentric - is unlike anything else in recent memory.
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Tony Jones: Pitch, Rhythm, and Consciousness
by Matt Marshall
On this ruminative record--and, indeed, it is a record, released primarily on vinyl, with MP3 downloads available--saxophonist Tony Jones, violinist Charles Burnham and percussionist Kenny Wollesen show themselves wholly comfortable within the quiet sonic space about them. Jones is the lead voice--the lead traveler, as it were--working his way across a terrain that is at once wide open and timeless, and newly created by the musicians themselves. The opener, Dear Toy," one of two tunes on the ...
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