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Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: Song for My Sister

Read "Song for My Sister" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 11, 2002

The band comes out swinging, lush, loose, rollicking, on the disc's title track, “Song for My Sister". Leader/multiple reedman Roscoe Mitchell on tenor sax, front line partner Corey Wilkes blowing trumpet. The band is filled with duos--two pianos, a pair of basses, a couple a drummers. “Song for My Sister", the song, is lush, full-bodied without ...

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More Cutouts

By Roscoe Mitchell

Label: CECMA
Released: 2000

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Roscoe Mitchell

By More Cutouts

Label: CECMA
Released: 2000

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Roscoe Mitchell: More Cutouts

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2000

More Cutouts represents archival material originally recorded in Florence, Italy 1981, by the trio of saxophonist and leader of the date Roscoe Mitchell, percussionist Tani Tabbal and trumpeter Hugh Ragin. On “Song For The Little Feet –Take A”, the musicians execute pure, innocent motifs in alternating fashion as Ragin and Mitchell produce simple themes that could ...

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More Cutouts: Roscoe Mitchell

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2000

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Nine To Get Ready

By Roscoe Mitchell

Label: ECM Records
Released: 1999

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In Walked Buckner

By Roscoe Mitchell

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Off Shore, In Walked Buckner, Squeaky, The Le Dreher Suite, Three Sides of a Story, Till Autumn, Fly Over, Opposite Sides. Total time: 64:49.

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Roscoe Mitchell: Nine To Get Ready

by Glenn Astarita
May 1, 1999

Nine To Get Ready is Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory which is an aggregate of modern day jazz stylists well known for improvisational abilities and equally at home in a structured environment. To quote Mitchell from the liners......”Nine To Get Ready is the coming together of a dream I had many years ago of putting ...

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The Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: In Walked Buckner

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1999

For what it is, this second recording by the Roscoe Mitchell Quartet may be exceedingly well done. The challenge lies in trying to figure out exactly what it is. Some random parts — most notably the breezy title selection, which showcases Mitchell’s brawny tenor — are recognizably Jazz as we know it; others appear to be ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: In Walked Buckner

by Eric Saidel
April 1, 1999

Roscoe Mitchell is the thinking person's Jazz musician. He is unlikely to let his listener just sit back and tap her foot. His music challenges the listener; it draws the listener into the creative process by forcing the listener to make sense of the music, to connect the dots, and to think about what she's hearing. ...