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Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Vol. 1

Read "This Brings Us To, Vol. 1" reviewed by Russ Musto


Henry Threadgill's This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 marks the return of the iconoclastic saxophonist/flautist's Zooid ensemble, his primary public performance vehicle for the past decade. The quintet, although having undergone some significant changes since its previous disc, with bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi and multi-instrumentalist Elliot Humberto Kavee replacing cellist/trombonist Dana Leong and drummer Dafnis Prieto, ...

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Travail, Transformation, and Flow

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Echoes; Rudreshm; As Things Change (I Remain the Same); Dubs; Alloy; Waves; No Neighborhood Rough Enough; Living In The World Today.

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Cries From Tha Ghetto

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: First Mind; Abstrakt #1; SICK JJ; Levitation; Rain; Cries From Tha Ghetto; Abstrakt #2; Visionary of an Abstrakt; Abstrakt #3; Villa Tiamo; Abstrakt #4; Chasin' LeRoy.

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This Brings Us To, Volume 1

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2009

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This Brings Us To, Volume 1

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: White Wednesday Off the Wall; To Undertake My Corners Open; Chairmaster; After Some Time; Sap; Mirror Mirror the Verb.

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Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume 1

Read "This Brings Us To, Volume 1" reviewed by Troy Collins


Pi Recordings was founded in 2001 to release a pair of albums by legendary AACM composer/multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill, the electric Everybody's Mouth's a Book (with Make a Move) and acoustic Up Popped the Two Lips (with Zooid). This Brings Us To, Volume 1 is his first commercially released recording in eight years--a homecoming of sorts for ...

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Steve Lehman Octet: Travail, Transformation, and Flow

Read "Travail, Transformation, and Flow" reviewed by Troy Collins


On Travail, Transformation, and Flow saxophonist Steve Lehman continues down the creative path blazed on his previous release, On Meaning (Pi Recordings, 2007). In addition to updating the earlier session's rhythmic energy with even more audaciously contemporary beats, he presents the first jazz-oriented exploration of the musical concept known as spectral harmony. In spectral ...

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Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow

Read "Travail, Transformation, and Flow" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman is well known for conceptual and cutting edge works including Manifold (Clean Feed Records, 2007) and On Meaning (Pi Recordings, 2008), as well as his involvement in seminal groups like the cooperative Fieldwork with pianist Vijay Iyer and drummer TyShawn Sorey. With past recordings consisting of smaller ensembles, the bandleader/composer literally multiplies ...

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Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse: Cries From Tha Ghetto

Read "Cries From Tha Ghetto" reviewed by Troy Collins


Trumpet player Corey Wilkes was just 24 when saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell recruited him to join the Art Ensemble of Chicago in 2003, four years after Lester Bowie's passing. Since then he has demonstrated remarkable technical and creative ability, serving as a sideman in James Carter's Quintet, Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra ...

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Kinsmen

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Introspection; Ganesha; Rez-Alap; Longing; Snake; Carlo-Alap; Kalyani; Kadri-Alap; Kanya-Alap; Convergence (Kinsmen).


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