Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019

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Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019
Studio album by Ken Vandermark

Publication
(s)

2019

Label (s) Audiographic Records

Format (s)

5CD

Title (number)

20th

occupation

Studio (s)

Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago; The Stone, New York City

chronology
Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley : Deeply Discounted II / Sequences of Snow
(2019) 		Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019 Unexpected Alchemy
(2019)
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Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019 is a jazz album by Ken Vandermark . It contains duo recordings of the woodwind with Kris Davis , Hamid Drake , Paul Lytton , Ikue Mori and William Parker . The recordings, which were made between 2015 and 2019, were released on August 6, 2019 in a limited 5-CD edition on Audiographic Records . Vandermark and a different musician each improvised the music on a CD. Three of the CDs were recorded in New York at The Stone during Vandermark's residency in 2018; the other two were buw in 2015. Recorded in 2019 at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.

background

The recordings with Paul Lytton (CD 1) were made on June 3, 2015 in the Experimental Sound Studio , Chicago. The duos with Ikue Mori (CD 2) are a recording from The Stone in New York on January 3, 2018. The following day, also at Stone , the recordings were made with Kris Davis (CD 2/3) and on January 6 the one with William Parker (CD 4). The recordings with Hamid Drake (CD 5) are again studio recordings from January 28, 2019, which were made in the Experimental Sound Studio , Chicago.

Track list

  • Ken Vandermark with Kris Davis • Hamid Drake • Paul Lytton • Ikue Mori • William Parker: Momentum 4 (Consequent Duos: 2015> 2019) (Audiographic Records AGR-016)
CD 1
  1. Paul Lytton • Ken Vandermark ESS 1A 4:15
  2. Paul Lytton • Ken Vandermark ESS 1B 7:55
  3. Paul Lytton • Ken Vandermark ESS 1C 13:20
  4. Paul Lytton • Ken Vandermark ESS 1D 7:49
  5. Paul Lytton • Ken Vandermark ESS 1E 8:51
  6. Paul Lytton • Ken Vandermark ESS 1F 5:41
CD 2
  1. Ikue Mori • Ken Vandermark Stone 1A 34:26
  2. Ikue Mori • Ken Vandermark Stone 1B 11:23
CD 3
  1. Kris Davis • Ken Vandermark Stone 2A 3:47 pm
  2. Kris Davis • Ken Vandermark Stone 2B 13:04
  3. Kris Davis • Ken Vandermark Stone 2C 24:39
CD 4
  1. William Parker • Ken Vandermark Stone 3A 8:49 pm
  2. William Parker • Ken Vandermark Stone 3B 10:17
  3. William Parker • Ken Vandermark Eventual (Written for Sunny Murray ) 16:35
CD5
  1. Hamid Drake • Ken Vandermark ESS 2A 8:30
  2. Hamid Drake • Ken Vandermark ESS 2B 4:54
  3. Hamid Drake • Ken Vandermark ESS 2C 6:02
  4. Hamid Drake • Ken Vandermark ESS 2D 6:16
  5. Hamid Drake • Ken Vandermark ESS 2E 5:50
  6. Hamid Drake • Ken Vandermark ESS 2F 9:49

reception

Keith Prosk and Paul Acquaro, who gave the album the highest rating of five stars on Free Jazz Blog , believe that what makes Vandermark so special is not just the peculiarity of his musicality, but also his character itself and the feedback loop between them. His writing articulates an openness to listen and learn; his play demonstrates it by giving others generous space and adequate communication. The subversion of personal patterns is a constant motive. This creative giant, who by now should feel comfortable and secure in every movement, is in such a position precisely because he deliberately does not do it. In the opinion of the authors, the reason why the recordings are so interested is that they are performing musicians like Lytton, Parker and Drake, who have no decades-long musical relationship with Vandermark. Freely performed duos with less familiar musicians seem to be excellent laboratory conditions to witness the immediate development of Vandermark.

Bill Meyer wrote in Dusted that the music that emerged from Vandermark's special experimental arrangement was anything but simple. “Each duet deals not only with the present moment, but also with the past that Vandermark shares with every musician and what it meant to him. Pianist Kris Davis, bassist William Parker, electronics artist Ikue Mori, and drummers Hamid Drake and Paul Lytton either taught him how to make improvised music and what it means to play it, or they opened the door to new avenues to advance his thinking and play. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Momentum 4 (Consequent Duos: 2015> 2019) at Discogs
  2. ↑ Keith Prosk and Paul Acquaro: Ken Vandermark with Kris Davis, Hamid Drake, Paul Lytton, Ikue Mori, William Parker: Momentum 4 (Consequent Duos: 2015> 2019). Free Jazz Blog, December 15, 2019, accessed June 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bill Meyer: Ken Vandermark with Kris Davis, Hamid Drake, Paul Lytton, Ikue Mori, William Parker: Momentum 4 (Consequent Duos: 2015> 2019). Dusted, February 27, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020 .