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Pre-Emptive Denial

Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Trading on All Fours; We Bow to Royalties.

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Paraphrase: Pre-Emptive Denial

Read "Pre-Emptive Denial" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


Without a compositional safety net, freely improvising musicians must listen deeply and react quickly to avoid excess repetition or meandering. Executed with precision, the visceral immediacy of free improv can be exhilarating, as is the case on Pre-Emptive Denial, the third release by Paraphrase, saxophonist Tim Berne's improvising trio with drummer Tom Rainey and bassist Drew ...

Album

Pre-Emptive Denial

Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Trading On All Fours; We Bow to Royalties.

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Article: Album Review

Paraphrase: Pre-Emptive Denial

Read "Pre-Emptive Denial" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Alto saxophonist Tim Berne describes himself as a perfectionist, a word that has “control" lurking just under its skin. So how does someone who's into control get comfortable going into a situation of spontaneous composition, where the unpredictable is the game plan?Paraphrase, with drummer Tom Rainey, bassist Drew Gress, and Berne, got togther to ...

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Paraphrase: Pre-Emptive Denial

Read "Pre-Emptive Denial" reviewed by John Kelman


What do you do for a release when your normal modus operandi is to play within a context of complex composed material? In the case of saxophonist Tim Berne, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Tom Rainey, the answer is to periodically convene a group called Paraphrase, whose purpose in life is to improvise without a safety ...


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