Results for "Pi Recordings"

This Brings Us To, Volume 1

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2009

This Brings Us To, Volume 1

By Henry Threadgill

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.

Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume 1

by Troy Collins
October 20, 2009

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
June 9, 2009

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
June 8, 2009

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 ...

Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse: Cries From Tha Ghetto

by Troy Collins
May 24, 2009

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 ...

Kinsmen

By Rudresh Mahanthappa

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

Vision Towards Essence

By Muhal Richard Abrams

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.

Party Intellectuals

By Marc Ribot

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Break On Through; Party Intellectuals; Todo El Mundo Es Kitsch; When We Were Young and We Were Freaks; Digital Handshake; Bateau; For Malena; Pinch; Girlfriend; Midost; ShSh ShSh; Never Better.

Door

By Fieldwork

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Of; After Meaning; Less; Balanced; Bend; Cycle I; Pivot Point; Pivot Point Redux; Ghost Time; Cycle II; Rai.