(Avant-Garde Jazz, Big Band) [CD] Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - American Agonistes - 2007, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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REM GENRE "Avant-Garde Jazz"
REM DATE 2007
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All compositions by Mark Harvey
Cover art by Kate Matson
Produced by Mark Harvey & Leo Feigin
Liner notes: Mark Harvey
1,2 recorded September 19, 2001 in Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA by Myrna Johnson
3-6 recorded April 17, 2004 in Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA by David Broderick
7. recorded July 16, 2007 in Killian Hall, MIT by Forrest Larson
They say tragedies bring out the best in people. In the case of Mark Harvey's Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, it might just be true. American Agonistes is an album of programmatic music inspired by 9/11 and the events that unfolded in its wake. It is also arguably the band's best album to date and certainly its most musically accessible. Through three works recorded between 2001 and 2007, Harvey offers a stunning hour of music that is, in turn, beautiful, poignant, and raucous. Avant-garde music always goes down better if there is a storyline involved. For neophytes, there is nothing like a picture or other direct tie to something known to make sense of the unknown (free improvisation, abstract musical gestures, etc.). In that regard, American Agonistes is an excellent place to start, but even avant-garde jazz connoisseurs will enjoy the raw emotion and refinement found in these pieces. First up is the diptych "Blood on the Sun/New Moon Rising," premiered and recorded only a week after the attack on the World Trade Center. Surely composed in haste, while the event was the event, this piece draws a graphic aural picture of the whole scene: the plane crashes, the crumbling towers, the desolation. A bit crude in the writing and delivery, it is nonetheless very poignant. "Fallen Truth" is a longer and much more developed piece in four movements, about the "politics of deception" that evolved from the 9/11 terrorist attack. Movement titles like "Big Oil Tango" and "Theocracy in America" should tell you two things already: on what side of the interpretive fence Harvey stands (the left side, that's right), and that this is not cheerful music. There is a lot going on here, big-band styles (swing, tango) alternating with contemporary music bits, angst-driven improvisation, and bleak dirges. Concluding the set, "Sounding Peace" offers a meager four minutes of low-register balladry, adding a hopeful yet somewhat somber (or is that realistic?) note. Programmatic music can be tacky -- sometimes it can feel like a first reader's book for the newcomer to contemporary music -- but American Agonistes is definitely not. This album drips with honesty, intelligence, sound design, and art. Wow, it reads like a list of everything the Bush administration has been lacking, doesn't it?

Music director/conductor & piano (1,2,3,6), trumpet (5,7): Mark Harvey
Saxophones & woodwinds:
Peter Bloom: as, fl, bass fl, picc
Arni Cheatham: as, fl
Mark Messier: bs, cl (1,2)
Phil Scarff: ts, sop, cl
Chris Rakowski: ts (3-7)
Daniel Ian Smith: ts, fl (1,2)
Dan Zupan: bs (7)
Trumpets: KC Dunbar, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jeanne Snodgrass
French horn: Dan Shaud (3-6)
Trombones/Tuba:
Jay Keyser: tbn
Bill Lowe: bs tbn, tba
Jeff Marsanskis: tbn, bs tbn
Bob Pilkington: tbn (1,2,7)
Tom Plsek: tbn (1,2)
Guitar: Larry Carsman (1,2), Richard Nelson (3-6)
String bass: John Funkhouser (3-7), Jesse Williams (1,2)
Electric bass: Jerry Edwards
Drums: Harry Wellott
Percussion: Craig Ellis
Vocalist: Donna Hewitt Didham (1)