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Artist:
MORRIS, JOE
Title:
Singularity
Label:
AUM FIDELITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
AUM 018CD
"After a brief breather, a season two past, and the hub-hub of a great old chosen frozen turned to hubris: Joe Morris sat down with his steel string acoustic and flew. West Africa is in the living room. Devastating technique is in ample evidence, but of course, that's not the point. Here then, ten excursions in elevation. Six strings versus ten fingers; brilliant beauty."
Artist:
MORRIS, JOE
Title:
Wildlife
Label:
AUM FIDELITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
AUM 056CD
"A gorgeous modern jazz album with vintage microphone glow; four fully inviting long-form collective improvisations.
Wildlife
is the debut recording of a new group concept from jazz master nonpareil Joe Morris. Within this trio anything is possible. Joe Morris is here featured on bass. Petr Cancura, a remarkably gifted young musician (featured here on tenor and alto sax, and as recording engineer!), is a Czech Republic native who now resides in Brooklyn (by way of Ottawa, then Boston). Petr's name was new to us at AUM Fidelity when Joe first spoke of his great musical gifts, which are on gorgeous display here. Drummer Luther Gray developed from kicking it in punk rock bands in Washington DC in the late '80s to being a jazz drummer of great finesse and technique in the modern day. He has been working with Joe Morris since 2002. The warm and inviting glow of their first group recording together emphasizes a very modern swing with each member of the trio drawn toward melodic elucidation via joy of creation.
'Wildlife improvises openly and collectively,'
Morris explains.
'Understanding the value of spirit and emotion is a part of the improviser's skill set. Having the means to display them is essential. Discovering shape, groove, melody and form in the process of making them is the great reward for working this way.'
"
Artist:
MORRIS, JOE
Title:
Colorfield
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 4056CD
"Joe Morris returns both to the guitar and to ESP-Disk with the long form improvisation album
Colorfield
. Much as the Colorfield painters simplified their compositions to evoke emotion with color, this trio emphasizes harmony, phrase, tempo and rhythm to electrifying results. Morris has been called the preeminent American jazz guitarist of our time, and, on
Colorfield
, his playing is characteristically intense, eloquent and melodic. The ranks of the trio are filled out by two of the most talented and skillful improvisors on the scene today, Steve Lantner and Luther Gray. Lantner's soloing on this recording has a state-of-the-art fluidity, energy, shape and dynamic variety while Gray, a master of the school of Free Music drumming, provides a constantly shifting but still driving groove that punctuates each moment with precision and invention. To see musicians of this caliber fuse their talents to create an original, dense and deeply contemplative work such as
Colorfield
is extraordinary. As a result, the album gets better with every listen."
Artist:
MORRIS, JOE
Title:
Camera
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 4063CD
"The great improvising guitarist, Joe Morris, returns with Luther Gray on drums and adds the masterful string section of Katt Hernandez on violin and Junko Fujiwara Simons on cello for his follow up to 2009's
Colorfield
(ESPDISK 4056CD). Drawing inspiration from the assembly of tones in film and photography, Morris leads his quartet in stopping time to highlight the value and unpredictable sensation that each moment offers and the pleasure in exploring the layers of experience and form contained within them."
"As improvising musicians we function somewhat like a camera, displaying the moment in sound."
-- Joe Morris, July 2010
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