(Modern Creative, Avant-Garde, Contemporary Jazz) Gerald Cleaver & Uncle June Ensemble (Tony Malaby, Craig Taborn, Mat Maneri, Andrew Bishop, Drew Gress) - Be It As I See It - 2011, WEB, FLAC (tracks), lossless
Треклист:
GERALD CLEAVER'S UNCLE JUNE
BE IT AS I SEE IT
Жанр: Modern Creative, Avant-Garde, Contemporary Jazz
Год издания: 2011
Издатель (лейбл): Fresh Sound Records
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 54:01
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: front
Источник (релизер): WEB (я)
Треклист:
1. To Love
2. Charles Street Sunrise
Fence & Post (for Mom & Dad)
3. Alluvia
4. The Lights
5. Lee / Mae
6. Statues / Umbra
7. Ruby Ritchie / Well
8. He Said
9. Gremmy
10. Charles Street Quotidian
11. 22 Minutes (The Wedding Song)
12. From a Life of the Same Name
• # 5 on the 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2011 by Amazon.com
• # 7 at Jazz Journalist Association
• the Best of 2011 By Hank Shteamer, Time Out New York
• KBCS Best recordings of 2011 by David Utevsky
• The Best Jazz of 2011 By John Garratt and Will Layman, Pop Matters
• TOP 10 by Jazz by Detroit Free Press
• 20 Discs you need by Boston Phoenix
• a 4 star review by Peter Margasak, DownBeat Magazine
BE IT AS I SEE IT
Жанр: Modern Creative, Avant-Garde, Contemporary Jazz
Год издания: 2011
Издатель (лейбл): Fresh Sound Records
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 54:01
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: front
Источник (релизер): WEB (я)
Треклист:
1. To Love
2. Charles Street Sunrise
Fence & Post (for Mom & Dad)
3. Alluvia
4. The Lights
5. Lee / Mae
6. Statues / Umbra
7. Ruby Ritchie / Well
8. He Said
9. Gremmy
10. Charles Street Quotidian
11. 22 Minutes (The Wedding Song)
12. From a Life of the Same Name
Исполнители
Gerald Cleaver - drums, percussion, voice
Tony Malaby - soprano saxophone, tenor soprano saxophone
Andrew Bishop - flute, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Craig Taborn - piano
Mat Maneri - viola
Drew Gress - bass
&
Ryan MacStaller - guitar (1, 8)
Andy Taub - banjo (11)
Jean Carla Rodea - voice (8, 11)
John Cleaver - voice (8)
Tony Malaby - soprano saxophone, tenor soprano saxophone
Andrew Bishop - flute, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Craig Taborn - piano
Mat Maneri - viola
Drew Gress - bass
&
Ryan MacStaller - guitar (1, 8)
Andy Taub - banjo (11)
Jean Carla Rodea - voice (8, 11)
John Cleaver - voice (8)
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Reviews
All About Jazz
Be It As I See It, Gerald Cleaver's fourth release as a leader, is an artistic vision of the Great Migration of African American families, in particular his family's movement from the rural South to the urban landscapes in the North, arriving at his home in Detroit, Michigan. The New York-based drummer/composer is a major player in forward-thinking music, his reputation and acumen evolving through his early tenure with AACM leader Roscoe Mitchell, and involvement with like- minded contemporaries including bassist William Parker and pianist Craig Taborn in Farmers By Nature (AUM Fidelity, 2009). As proven time and time again, Cleaver's drumming skills are a force of epic proportion.
This time, his growth as a composer is highlighted all the more. These vignettes—childhood memories and experiences—are both abstract and human, representing a wellspring of imagination and talent, realized by his Uncle June ensemble, a tremendous lineup that includes longtime collaborator Taborn, the dual reeds of Tony Malaby and Andrew Bishop, bassist Drew Gress, and violist Mat Maneri.
Like stanzas in a poetic work, each track is connected yet autonomous. "To Love"'s dark shadowy groove includes cacophonous instruments and Cleaver's strident spoken words of love and tenacity, followed by "Charles Street Sunrise," which contains blustery flute in a pastoral setting. "Lee / Mae" is adorned with a current of ethereal strings and horn harmonies that are as lovely as they are dissonant. "Statues / UmbRa" moves like a modern day urban folktale, its balladesque rhythmic centering, before morphing into obscurity with multiple speaking voices, languid horns, and distorted guitar. These ideas are adventurous; sometimes unsettling, yet always fascinating.
Though the project is challenging, Uncle June rises to the occasion. "Gremmy" is outlandishly fun, intersecting between the lines of avant-garde and free-bop and elevated by Bishop and Malaby's contrasting reeds, Gress' thumping solo and a skittering flight from Taborn. Another factor in the equation is Maneri, whose resonating viola adds an unusual tonality. "From A Life Of The Same Name" concludes the set with a mellifluous hypnotism that's the polar opposite of the opening track; its slow swirl of voices creating an intoxicating aura.
Be It As I See It is memorable; a lucid expression that is at times surreal and breathtakingly poignant. ~ Mark F. Turner
This time, his growth as a composer is highlighted all the more. These vignettes—childhood memories and experiences—are both abstract and human, representing a wellspring of imagination and talent, realized by his Uncle June ensemble, a tremendous lineup that includes longtime collaborator Taborn, the dual reeds of Tony Malaby and Andrew Bishop, bassist Drew Gress, and violist Mat Maneri.
Like stanzas in a poetic work, each track is connected yet autonomous. "To Love"'s dark shadowy groove includes cacophonous instruments and Cleaver's strident spoken words of love and tenacity, followed by "Charles Street Sunrise," which contains blustery flute in a pastoral setting. "Lee / Mae" is adorned with a current of ethereal strings and horn harmonies that are as lovely as they are dissonant. "Statues / UmbRa" moves like a modern day urban folktale, its balladesque rhythmic centering, before morphing into obscurity with multiple speaking voices, languid horns, and distorted guitar. These ideas are adventurous; sometimes unsettling, yet always fascinating.
Though the project is challenging, Uncle June rises to the occasion. "Gremmy" is outlandishly fun, intersecting between the lines of avant-garde and free-bop and elevated by Bishop and Malaby's contrasting reeds, Gress' thumping solo and a skittering flight from Taborn. Another factor in the equation is Maneri, whose resonating viola adds an unusual tonality. "From A Life Of The Same Name" concludes the set with a mellifluous hypnotism that's the polar opposite of the opening track; its slow swirl of voices creating an intoxicating aura.
Be It As I See It is memorable; a lucid expression that is at times surreal and breathtakingly poignant. ~ Mark F. Turner
Down Beat
On his third album as a leader, drummer Gerald Cleaver looks inward, reflecting on the struggles and victories of his family’s part in the Great Migration from Mississippi to Detroit. The leader eschews any narrative structure, period pieces, or forced symbolism, instead reveling in diverse but masterful flexibility. The scramble of moods and styles mirrors the scrappy resourcefulness and improvisational wit demanded by the jarring changes of northern migration.
Cleaver doesn’t merely employ his vast family of musical collaborators, but he also brings in his father, John Cleaver, for the terse recitation on the flinty, rock-driven “To Love,” while his wife, Jean Carta Rodea, delivers the abstract words behind “He Said.” The centerpiece of the album is “Fence & Post (For Mom & Dad),” a five-part suite that veers from chamber-like serenity to post-Sun Ra space-outs (with Craig Taborn expertly serving up Saturn-style synthesizer squiggles) to a Duke Ellington-worthy tone poem to grooves percolating into chaos to a tempo-shifting post-bop fantasia. The influence of the AACM—gleaned directly from his long association with the reedist and composer Roscoe Mitchell—along with Sun Ra hangs heavy over the proceedings, but Cleaver filters them through his own gauzy sensibility, accenting dissonance with a judicious silkiness. The recording captures a deep ensemble effort, but there are astonishing solos from reedists Tony Malaby and Andrew Bishop, violist Mat Maneri and Taborn. Cleaver has established his bona fides as a top jazz drummer; now it’s time to recognize his skills as a conceptualist, composer and leader. ~ Peter Margasak
Cleaver doesn’t merely employ his vast family of musical collaborators, but he also brings in his father, John Cleaver, for the terse recitation on the flinty, rock-driven “To Love,” while his wife, Jean Carta Rodea, delivers the abstract words behind “He Said.” The centerpiece of the album is “Fence & Post (For Mom & Dad),” a five-part suite that veers from chamber-like serenity to post-Sun Ra space-outs (with Craig Taborn expertly serving up Saturn-style synthesizer squiggles) to a Duke Ellington-worthy tone poem to grooves percolating into chaos to a tempo-shifting post-bop fantasia. The influence of the AACM—gleaned directly from his long association with the reedist and composer Roscoe Mitchell—along with Sun Ra hangs heavy over the proceedings, but Cleaver filters them through his own gauzy sensibility, accenting dissonance with a judicious silkiness. The recording captures a deep ensemble effort, but there are astonishing solos from reedists Tony Malaby and Andrew Bishop, violist Mat Maneri and Taborn. Cleaver has established his bona fides as a top jazz drummer; now it’s time to recognize his skills as a conceptualist, composer and leader. ~ Peter Margasak
• # 7 at Jazz Journalist Association
• the Best of 2011 By Hank Shteamer, Time Out New York
• KBCS Best recordings of 2011 by David Utevsky
• The Best Jazz of 2011 By John Garratt and Will Layman, Pop Matters
• TOP 10 by Jazz by Detroit Free Press
• 20 Discs you need by Boston Phoenix
• a 4 star review by Peter Margasak, DownBeat Magazine