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Amir ElSaffar / Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite
by Stuart Broomer
This is an illuminating meeting between musicians who share similar cultural background and creative directions. Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar is an Iraqi-American whose work has fused elements of jazz and the maqam music of Iraq. His CD-length suite from 2007, Two Rivers, was a triumph of synthesis and vision. Tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh is an older Iranian-American ...
Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume 1
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che Henry Threadgill sia uno dei più straordinari protagonisti della storia della musica afroamericana è un dato che si spera nessuno possa mai mettere in discussione: a colpire, oltre alla eccellente qualità delle sue composizioni, è certamente la capacità di lavorare su processi creativi di fortissimo spessore e personalità, del tutto incurante di mode o di ...
Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Vol. 1
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, ...
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.
Travail, Transformation, and Flow
By Steve Lehman
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.
Cries From Tha Ghetto
By Corey Wilkes
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.
Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume 1
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 ...
Steve Lehman Octet: Travail, Transformation, and Flow
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 ...
Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow
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 ...
