Navigation (Possible Abstracts XII & XIII)
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Navigation (Possible Abstracts XII & XIII) is a jazz album by Taylor Ho Bynum with a septet line-up . The recordings made on December 8, 2012 were released on November 12, 2013 on Firehouse 12 Records .
background
The Navigation recordings are the fourth and fifth recordings of the Bynums sextet / septet and follow Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12, 2011), the session that formulated Bynum's vision for composition / improvisation and focused on this recognizable ensemble of players, wrote Mark Corroto . Navigation (Possible Abstracts XII & XIII) is the release of studio recordings in which the septet of the cornetist and composer plays the composition Navigation ; At the same time, a 2-LP edition was released with a live version of the piece, Possibility Abstracts X & XI , which was recorded the day before. In Taylor Ho Bynum's septet Jim Hobbs played on alto saxophone, Bill Lowe on bass trombone and tuba, Mary Halvorson on guitar, Ken Filiano on bass, and Chad Taylor and Tomas Fujiwara on drums and vibraphone. Compared to the albums Apparent Distance and Asphalt Flowers, Forking Paths there is no change in the line-up.
Editor's note
In November 2013 Firehouse 12 Records also released the Edition Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings) as a multi-format set with four albums by cornetist and composer Taylor Ho Bynum. The project documents four different versions of Bynum's modular composition Navigation , with two sets recorded live with his sextet (excluding Chad Taylor). The music was recorded over two days, December 7th and 8th, 2012.
Track list
- Taylor Ho Bynum 7-tette - Navigation (Possibility Abstract XII & XIII) (Firehouse 12 Records FH12-04-01-019)
- CD 1 - Navigation (Possibility Abstract XII)
- Some 7:17
- Manch-Ish 8:59
- Zade-Wuk 11:42
- Gloomy 12:05
- Zade-Wuk 14:08
- CD 2 - Navigation (Possibility Abstract XIII)
- Zade 11:04
- Kid-Wuk 14:47
- Gloomy 9:05
- Some 8:29
reception
According to Mark Corroto, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz and awarded it 4½ (out of five) stars, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum would certainly be her offspring “if Duke Ellington and Anthony Braxton were able to mix their DNA and to reproduce yourself ”. Bynum's amalgamation of Braxton's cartographic symbols for his performances and modular compositions with Ellington's arrangements for specific players shaped this music, the author said. “It's pretty unthinkable to hear those six sentences: 'MANCH', 'ZADE', 'WUK', 'TRIST', 'ISH' and 'KID' without anything other than Mary Halvorson's dysmorphic guitar sounds or Jim Hobb's sailing alto saxophone figures The music, written in independent modules, enables you to switch from one topic to the next on the signal of a player. Each piece continues as a continuous whole from one track to the next, transitions are sometimes not easily recognizable, with the exception of the overarching themes of each block.
Lloyd Sachs wrote in JazzTimes that Taylor Ho Bynum's navigation was "a fascinating study of variations" and offered four different settings of the extended title melody through its excellent, close-knit sextet / septet - two recorded live and two in the studio with Chad Taylor as second drummer. The music, which is broken down into different sections, ranged from shimmering spatial explorations to guttural New Orleans blues to wide-open improvisation. Despite all of this stylistic activity and the purposeful silence between sections, there is an enjoyable flow in these 40- and 50-minute performances. You can feel the ease with which the musicians play out each other's strengths when they break up into subgroups, either to support a soloist (Bynum is in particularly good shape) “or to create their own nervous, self-contained moments. Some of those moments, like a soulful burst of Memphis-like horns, come out of the blue; others, like a jagged, intense segment fed by Halvorson's hot-wired notes and plum-like chords, met our expectations. "Ken Filiano is often the centerpiece of the band's sound, with his lavish archery and the incisive plucked notes that come with Lowes deep tones form a strong bottom. The studio performances are no less intense than the live tracks, especially since the doubling of drums and vibraphone improves the texture.
Stef Gijssels wrote in the Free Jazz Blog that the composition and improvisation offer a lot and vary from almost fusion-influenced uptempo parts to more jazzy topics to controlled and intense pieces of joint improvisation, which are often threatening and foreboding. Only after listening to it several times do you recognize the differences between the various performances. “ Abstract XII has a longer, quieter part in the middle part, but then the rhythm starts again, with Filiano's bass anchoring the piece in its central theme, albeit less explicitly than in other variations, and Halvorson integrating it into a beautiful duet coll'arco . Abstract XIII has become even more abstract, whereby the main themes are now identifiable, but even less explicit and, strangely enough, make the solo performances and some of the horn sections more sensitive and fragile, even bluesier, towards the end. And that's the beauty of Bynum's compositions, ”the author sums up; "They are jazz with all elements of tradition, with blues , swing , bop , funk , fusion - luckily all more implicit, but obviously present - right up to Braxton and today's avant-garde." It is a great suite, full of variety and fantastic teamwork and extraordinary interactions. The entire band is playing very hard, with the clearly recognizable performances of Taylor Ho Bynum and Jim Hobbs, "and to be honest, they're great."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mark Corroto: Taylor Ho Bynum: Navigation (Possible Abstracts XII & XIII). All About Jazz, December 11, 2013, accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Taylor Ho Bynum 7-tette - Navigation (Possibility Abstract XII & XIII) at Discogs
- ^ Lloyd Sachs: Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet & 7-Tette: Navigation. JazzTimes, March 21, 2014, accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ^ Stef Gijssels: Navigation (Possible Abstracts XII & XIII). Free Jazz Blog, December 29, 2013, accessed May 1, 2020 .