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Shed Grace

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2004
Track listing: Shed Grace; The Refusal; Wordful; Skippy; Veatrice; So Very Cold; Colonial Mentality; Wonder Twins; Ishfahan; 430.

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When hearing the Chicago-based saxophone-bass-drum trio Sticks and Stones, it helps to remember what their style is steeped in. Sticks and Stones reminds jazz fans that its openly improvised format, sound, and playing is rooted both in Ornette Coleman's famous 1959 engagements at the Five Spot in New York where the iconoclastic saxophonist turned the bebop ...

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Sticks and Stones: Shed Grace

Read "Shed Grace" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
May 19, 2004

The leaderless, Chicago-born Sticks and Stones trio issued its self-titled debut in 2002 on the 482 Music label. Shed Grace, the group’s Thrill Jockey follow-up, is another fine set—driven by free invention, filtered through democratic exchange. Together, alto saxophonist Matana Roberts, bassist Josh Abrams and drummer Chad Taylor speak the language of free jazz but contend ...

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Sticks And Stones: Shed Grace

Read "Shed Grace" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 3, 2004

The trio Sticks And Stones played together for years as the house band for Fred Anderson’s Chicago Velvet Lounge before formally naming themselves. I’m thinking they should rename themselves the Virtuous Sticks and Stones. The name change could act as a descriptor; they are indeed the most patient young band playing music today. Where ...