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Ches is low in the mix, but it works for the music. He plays a lot of percussion, very few beats or rhythms. The clarity is great, so hearing his gongs and marimba etc always shifting and roiling under the music creates tremendous texture.

Matt Mitchell is the star of the record, IMO. His playing is front and center and drives a lot of the momentum, both rhythmically & melodically. There are times when his left & right hands are playing completely independent lines, the effect of which is dazzling. I wish Oscar Noriega played a bigger role, but all in all I love the record. It's dark, knotty, very noisy stuff.

Nicely sums up what I'm enjoying about it, thanks Colinmce for allowing me to be lazy. More Noriega would be grand but overall a very strong release indeed.

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Two more from Otomo Yoshihide on pre-order @ Cafe Oto from his 2009 Residency.

The first is the first recording I know of him playing piano and it's a solo.

Soundcloud to a track.


https://soundcloud.com/cafeoto/otomo-yoshihide-piano-solo

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2nd is with Otomo Yoshihide / Sachiko M / Evan Parker / John Edwards / Tony Marsh / John Butcher

Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/cafeoto/otomo-yoshihide-sachiko-m-evan

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Any Ben Allison fans here? According to his website he's got a new album coming out on December 3rd. Looks like he's continuing his journey into fusion as it'll be a line up of guitar, guitar, bass and drums. Will have to wait and see.

http://benallison.com/

There's a song and a 'making of' video here: http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/story/song-premiere-ben-allison/

Definitely seems like he's continuing his path into fusion, the Ben Allison following his muse version of it circa 2013 that is.

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Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble - A Trumpet In The Morning

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Album info and lengthy-ish samples can be heard here: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=92226

I haven't heard it yet so can't really add anything that you can't judge for yourself by checking out the info and song samples on the labels website. I'm quite looking forward to hearing this album in full.

Here's the album personnel:

E.J. Allen, trumpet; Ray Anderson, trombone; Uri Caine, piano; John Clark, French horn; Joseph Daley, tuba; Robert DeBellis, alto and soprano sax, clarinet; Michael Dessen, trombone; Curtis Fowlkes, trombone; Drew Gress, bass; Jerome Harris, guitar, slide guitar; Miki Hirose, trumpet; Ron Horton, trumpet; Howard Johnson, baritone sax; Brad Jones, bass; Adam Kolker, tenor sax, clarinet; Andy Laster, alto sax; Eric McPherson, drums; J.D. Parran, narrator, soprano and bass sax; Lisa Parrott, baritone sax, bass clarinet; Jason Robinson, tenor sax; Warren Smith, vibraphone, percussion; James Weidman, piano; Matt Wilson, drums; James Zollar, trumpet; Marty Ehrlich, conductor

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Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble - A Trumpet In The Morning

51GpLGUJLGL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Album info and lengthy-ish samples can be heard here: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=92226

I haven't heard it yet so can't really add anything that you can't judge for yourself by checking out the info and song samples on the labels website. I'm quite looking forward to hearing this album in full.

Here's the album personnel:

E.J. Allen, trumpet; Ray Anderson, trombone; Uri Caine, piano; John Clark, French horn; Joseph Daley, tuba; Robert DeBellis, alto and soprano sax, clarinet; Michael Dessen, trombone; Curtis Fowlkes, trombone; Drew Gress, bass; Jerome Harris, guitar, slide guitar; Miki Hirose, trumpet; Ron Horton, trumpet; Howard Johnson, baritone sax; Brad Jones, bass; Adam Kolker, tenor sax, clarinet; Andy Laster, alto sax; Eric McPherson, drums; J.D. Parran, narrator, soprano and bass sax; Lisa Parrott, baritone sax, bass clarinet; Jason Robinson, tenor sax; Warren Smith, vibraphone, percussion; James Weidman, piano; Matt Wilson, drums; James Zollar, trumpet; Marty Ehrlich, conductor

Great personnel. I always get nervous when I see "narrator".

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Great personnel. I always get nervous when I see "narrator".

Yeah it can be a bit of a red flag. You can hear some of it on track two of the samples posted on the label's website... it's in the same style as the spoken word sections of the recent Trio 3 + Jason Moran album so i'm guessing that style of poetic spoken word in is a thing... anyway, i liked it although it is a bit corny; i listened to that particular track sample about ten times to make sure i really was okay with the vocal before i made my order. :wacko:

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Just ordered two great-looking cross-pollinated releases: Aquarius by Nicole Mitchell on Delmark and Unknown Known by Josh Abrams on Rogue Art. Both feature the core trio of Abrams, Adasiewicz, and Frank Rosaly with Mitchell and David Boykin respectively.

I've had the Mitchell for a couple of days and I'm thoroughly enjoying it however it's almost designed for me as flute/vibes is a line up that would be close to the top of my list and Mitchell and Adasiewicz top of each instrumnets' 'must hear' players. There's some strong writing on the album and the playing's as good as you'd expect. I doubt you'll be disappointed

I was blown away by Nicole Mitchell's performance on Harris Eisenstadt's Golden State album and made a mental note to check her music out further but kind of forgot about it. Stumbled across this album and just about couldn't think of a more perfect line up. Couldn't resist ordering it; had to divert some money i'd put aside for pre-orders for albums coming out in December but i've still got time to skip some meals between now and then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPQFq9oMz98

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Just ordered two great-looking cross-pollinated releases: Aquarius by Nicole Mitchell on Delmark and Unknown Known by Josh Abrams on Rogue Art. Both feature the core trio of Abrams, Adasiewicz, and Frank Rosaly with Mitchell and David Boykin respectively.

I've had the Mitchell for a couple of days and I'm thoroughly enjoying it however it's almost designed for me as flute/vibes is a line up that would be close to the top of my list and Mitchell and Adasiewicz top of each instrumnets' 'must hear' players. There's some strong writing on the album and the playing's as good as you'd expect. I doubt you'll be disappointed

I was blown away by Nicole Mitchell's performance on Harris Eisenstadt's Golden State album and made a mental note to check her music out further but kind of forgot about it. Stumbled across this album and just about couldn't think of a more perfect line up. Couldn't resist ordering it; had to divert some money i'd put aside for pre-orders for albums coming out in December but i've still got time to skip some meals between now and then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPQFq9oMz98

You'll not regret your hunger - it's a marvellous album. I need to get Golden State

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