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BassDrumBone: The Long Road
ByThe trio members, individually, have collaborated with the likes of Dewey Redman, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Sam Rivers: a crowd that gives a good idea of the road that BassDrumBone has traveled over it's four decades, and nine previous recordings. The relative Ornette Coleman-eque simplicity of the triowithout the chording instrumentis one of its in-your-face charms, and when they bring in Jason Morana flexible sideman if ever there was oneand the spaciousness of the trio recedes, giving way lush harmonic undercurrents and peculiar and beguiling piano soloing. Then they bring in Joe Lovanowho stays with the tenor sax here. "Blue Ray," with Lovano, sounds like a late fifties Mingus ramble, the tenor sax weaving throaty growls around Anderson's talking trombone.
"Different Cities," penned by drummer Hemingway, is just the trio, on an inexorable, ruminative trudge that slips into slither through the city streets. "Cherry Pickin," with Lovano, begins with a two horn power walk, before the saxophonist involves himself in a circuitous solo, a loopy journey through the orchard looking for the ripest fruits, before trombonist Anderson follows him and points out, stentorian style, the best of the crop. Then the horns squabble, in the best possible way.
BassDrumBone closes the set with a pair of extended live cuts that explore freer territory, sounding loose, reveling in the sounds they are creating, a fitting close to their energized music-making.
Track Listing
CD 1:
Oh Yeah; Bungle Low; Blue Ray; Kemp; Why Not?; Quompot; Tone L; At Another Time.
CD 2:
Bluish; Different Cities; Cherry Pickin; The Line Up; Land's End.
Personnel
BassDrumBone
band / ensemble / orchestraMark Helias: bass; Gerry Hemingway: drums; Ray Anderson: trombone. Guests: Jason Moran: piano (CD 1, tracks 2, 5 ,7); Joe Lovano: tenor saxophone (CD 1, track 3; CD 2 tracks 1, 3).
Album information
Title: The Long Road | Year Released: 2016 | Record Label: Auricle Records
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