Results for "Pi Recordings"

Your Life Flashes

By Fieldwork

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: In Medias Res, Accumulated Gestrues, Sublimation, Generations, Mosiac, Sympathy, Step Lively, Horoscope, The Inner World, Path of Action

The Year of the Elephant

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Al-Madinah, Piru, The Zamzam Well a Stream of Pure Light, Kangaroo's Hollow, The Year of the Elephant, Miles Star in Thre Parts

Song for My Sister

By Roscoe Mitchell

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Song for My Sister; Sagitta; this; When the Whistle Blows; The Megaplexian; Step One, Two, Three; The Inside of a Star; Wind Change; Count Off

The Year Of The Elephant

By Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Al-Madinah; Piru; The Zamzam Well A Stream Of A Pure Light; Kangaroo

Up Popped The Two Lips & Everybody's Mouth's A Book

By Henry Threadgill

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Up Popped The Two Lips - Track listing: 1.Tickled Pink 2.Dark Black 3.Look 4.Around My Goose 5.Calm Down 6.Did You See That 7.Do The Needful

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Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes

by Dan McClenaghan
November 19, 2002

The first four releases from Pi Recordings feature brilliant but underappreciated veteran jazz giants: Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet. But the label also looks to jazz's future with Your Life Flashes by Fieldwork, a collective trio of inspired and vibrant young jazz men.The group's leader (unofficial, perhaps, but he ...

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year of the Elephant

by Dan McClenaghan
October 5, 2002

Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith put out a CD entitled Yo Miles! a couple of years back, so his debt to the Dark Prince, Miles Davis, is no secret. On this, The Year of the Elephant, his second CD with his Golden Quartet, Mile's influence, especially the sound of the late sixties through late seventies, pervades. In ...

Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2002

A good portion of the Fieldwork trio's music is composed, revealing an originality and maturity in their individual and collective playing of complex yet approachable free sounding pieces for even the most “mainstream" of listeners. Having separately performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, “Butch" Morris, Anthony Braxton, fellow Pi recording artist Henry Threadgill, and Andrew ...

Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory: Song For My sister

by Jerry D'Souza
September 23, 2002

Roscoe Mitchell has made several significant recordings during his long career. His is an ever evolving, constantly shaping mind, imagination molded into often stunning art. The placing and melding of sound patterns, the confluences or the expulsion of time, lend character and dimension to his work. For this recording, Mitchell has musicians that understand ...

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year Of The Elephant

by Mark Corroto
September 19, 2002

The aptly named Golden Quartet is either dubbed for the golden years of these four jazzmen, or perhaps it is the simple musical lines they have spun into an alloy of precious sound. The quartet’s impressive resume is beyond doubt. Wadada Leo Smith was a member of Chicago’s AACM and bands of Anthony Braxton ...