Empathetic Parts
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| Live album by Mike Reed ’s Loose Assembly & Roscoe Mitchell | ||||
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| Label (s) | 482 Music | |||
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CD |
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2 |
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41:58 |
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Mike Lintner |
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The Hideout, Chicago |
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Empathetic Parts is a jazz album by Mike Reed ’s Loose Assembly with Roscoe Mitchell . The recordings, made at a concert on November 7, 2009 at The Hideout , Chicago , were released in 2010 on 482 Music .
background
Mike Reed's formation People, Places & Things were preparing for the 2009 Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago when the band's planned guest, cornetist Bobby Bradford from Los Angeles, was injured and unable to travel from the west coast. The bandleader, who had recently been named vice chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), had two ideas: to sign AACM legend Roscoe Mitchell , with whom he had recently played, and to move him to a new one Extended work by Reed's other band, the Loose Assembly , modeled on the ideas of the AACM . The album also includes alto saxophonist Greg Ward , cellist Tomeka Reid , vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and bassist Joshua Abrams . The album also includes the track "I'll Be Right Here Waiting" by AACM musician Steve McCall .
The album is dominated by the long title track, an episodic work that revolves around the concept of "collective arranging" and in which Reed divides the responsibility for controlled improvisation equally among his band members, wrote Troy Collins. Each member is alternately conductor and sideman and so the ensemble members lead one after the other using techniques that Reed has adopted from his colleagues, the cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and the trombonist Jeff Albert . “With pieces that are supposed to facilitate transitions between sections, the piece elegantly alternates between different moods and gives the process a naturalistic flow. The suite moves episodically from free reflections to convoluted topics and during its 33-minute duration explores a multitude of moods, from spectral pointillism and meditative ostinatos to fragile abstraction and lively swing , with a lot of space being given to the contributions of the guest soloist. " An arrangement of Steve McCall's "I'll Be Right Here Waiting" illuminates the lyrical interplay of Mitchell and Ward's echoing voices on the alto saxophone and ends the festival appearance.
Track list
- Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts (482 Music 482-1074)
- Empathetic Parts 33:49
- I'll Be Right Here Waiting 8:09
reception
Lloyd Sachs wrote in JazzTimes that Mitchell had little time to prepare for the music that was recorded live at the Hideout ; however, the open, network-like structure of “Empathetic Parts” suits him perfectly. While Mitchell held down the middle with his teeming soprano saxophone and then created dissonances on the alto saxophone, ever-changing factions of the Loose Assembly moved around him and interacted with him, usually in pairs or threesomes. Elegant without being nostalgic, Loose Assembly polishes the air jewel “I'll Be Right Here Waiting” with great care and feeling.
According to Troy Collins, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , Mitchell's sympathetic relationship with Reed's young quintet creates a historical continuum that goes back to his early days as the founders of the Art Ensemble of Chicago , a pioneering collective whose influence on the concert was both undeniable and intentional. Empathetic Parts , a cross-generational summit meeting between one of the most important founders of the organization and their heirs in the younger generation, embodies the credo of the AACM, Great Black Music, Ancient to the Future .
Web links
- Information about the Albu at 482 Music
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Mike Reed's Loose Assembly: Empathetic Parts. JazzTimes, March 1, 2011, accessed June 7, 2020 .
- ^ A b Troy Collins: Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts. All About Jazz, November 30, 2010, accessed June 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts at Discogs