Old Growth Forest II
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| Label (s) | Astral spirits | |||
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Download, CD, cassette |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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52:10 |
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Harris Eisenstadt |
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Location (s) |
The Parlor Room, Northampton, MA |
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Old Growth Forest II is a self-titled album by Harris Eisenstadt's formation Old Growth Forest . The recordings, taken at a concert by the group in The Parlor Room in Northampton (Massachusetts) on June 11, 2017, were released on Astral Spirits and Monofonus Press in May 2019 .
background
Eisenstadt's quartet Old Growth Forest emerged from a trio that the drummer had expanded with Jeb Bishop (trombone) and Jason Roebke (bass) to form a band with saxophonist Tony Malaby . The formation's first recordings were made in September 2015 after two concerts in New York at The Stone, which was then run by John Zorn , and appeared on the album Old Growth Forest 2016 on Clean Feed Records .
The group's second album documents a live concert that was originally supposed to take place after the band's one-week tour of Canada, but had to be canceled due to heavy snowfall. The concert was finally rescheduled on June 11, 2017. The ticket model of the Pioneer Valley Jazzshares event series in Northampton is such that the audience subscribes to a season of concerts in advance, which resulted in the space being sold out.
Track list
- Harris Eisenstadt: Old Growth Forest II (Astral Spirits AS093), Monofonus Press MF196
- Needles / Seedlings 9:26
- Rustling 7:10
- Pit and Mound 8:09
- Standing Snags 8:21
- Biomass 7:32
- Shaded Canopy 6:14
- Song with Owen 5:18
- All compositions are by Harris Eisenstadt.
reception
Mark Corroto awarded the album with four stars in All About Jazz and wrote how the new generation of percussion band leaders Tyshawn Sorey and John Hollenbeck avoid Eisenstadt's huge Blakey / Tony Williams / Elvin Jones approach to his drumming. He, on the other hand, prefers to collect strong musical voices , as here at Old Growth Forest , and to create an akelett-like framework on which the improvisers can build. Eisenstadt trusts the directions of improvisation that every player chooses here, Corroto says. “Each direction serves the whole. The somewhat blues- like 'rustling' is fed by the organized clink of the drums and Roebke's pulse, which also feeds Bishop's trombone solo on 'Pit and Mound'. The remaining five tracks follow a similar model. Eisenstadt's compositions enable a growing conversation between the players. Let's call him neither a composer nor a drummer, but a jazz mediator, ”the author sums up.
According to Brad Cohan, who reviewed the album in JazzTimes , Old Growth Forest II is "as gripping" as the previous album , "unpredictable in its rhythmic twists and turns" but seamlessly flowing. The free-floating dynamic of the music is partly thanks to Eisenstadt, the leader of the group. As a former student of Barry Altschul , he has mastered percussive splatters, hard swinging grooves and bold abstractions without restrictions. The real strength of the set, however, lies in its sympathetic mood; this is a synergetic effort that is bursting with remarkable harmony and effortless interaction, the author praises.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old Growth Forest at Clean Feed
- ↑ Album information at Bandcamp
- ↑ Mark Corroto: Harris Eisenstadt Old Growth Forest. Old Growth Forest II All About Jazz, May 6, 2019. Retrieved on May 7, 2020 (English).
- ^ Brad Cohan: Harris Eisenstadt: Old Growth Forest II (Astral Spirits). JazzTimes, August 19, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2020 .