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Muhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell: Streaming

by Troy Collins
October 28, 2006

Inspired in part by a live reunion concert at the 2003 Venice Biennale, seminal AACM members Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell recently reconvened for a studio session, having not recorded together since the late 1970s. They reveal a synergistic rapport, perhaps unsurprisingly due to their three decade-plus common history. An exceptional document of empathetic interplay, Streaming embodies the AACM's expansive aesthetic. These five lengthy, open improvisations reveal the trio's fine-tuned listening skills, conciliatory communication and knowing restraint, ...