Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 (or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora)
with:
Kalaparusha (in his last recording), Allen Lowe, Ras Moshe, Noah Preminger, JD Allen, Lewis Porter, Matthew Shipp, Ursula Oppens, Ken Peplowski, Jon-Erik Kellso, Randy Sandke, Ray Suhy, Kevin Ray, Gerhard Graml, Christopher Meeder, Lou Grassi, Rob Wallace, Dean Bowman, and special guest Rick Moody.
Titled especially so no one can remember just exactly what it is called or what it’s about, Mulatto Radio is Allen Lowe’s new 4 cd set of original re-compositions of American song forms and contains:
blues
free jazz
standard song form,
post-minstrel pop forms,
19th century dance song,
stride piano,
bebop,
voodon ritual music
ragtime
James Reese Europe
Tristano-ism
movie music
abolitionist delusion,
more blues
gospel music of the Old Regular Baptists
circus song
medicine show music
black minstrel pop forms
musical double consciousness
and
New Orleans pianism, in a single package
kaufen kann man das Ding direkt bei Allen Lowe (paypal) – bei Interesse am besten eine Mail schreiben:
imericanmusic@gmail.com
Mulatto Radio…is nothing less than one man’s attempt to reimagine the whole history of jazz (and every other music he’s ever heard). It’s an exhaustive and exhausting collection of pieces intended to evoke different facets of the jazz past, embellished by the musicians based on what they bring to the party. Over the course its four discs (and he says he has another three in the can), Lowe creates a Burroughsian cutup of the jazz tradition, juxtaposing century-old two-beat rhythms with whirlwind, post-bop solos, or playing modern, Monkian melodies with Creole band instrumentation, including the best use of the banjo on a modern jazz record since Vernon Reid picked one up in Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society (and Ray Suhy’s playing bebop on the axe).
There’s lots of great playing here from a large cast; particular standouts include Suhy (a guitarist to be reckoned with, who demonstrates that monster chops and gut-level expression are not mutually exclusive), protean pianist Lewis Porter (who performs solo as well as in ensembles), titanic AACM tenorman Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (who appears on a half dozen tracks — his last recorded performances), clarinetist Ken Peplowski, tubist Christopher Meeder, and the leader himself, whose encyclopedic knowledge of jazz style comes to the fore and whose vocalized, bop-inflected tone hardly sounds like the work of an academic. It’s really a composer’s record (imagine if Duke Ellington was Jewish, trapped in a New England backwater, and unable to play except in the recording studio), and while Lowe provides copious notes explicating each piece, the music stands on its own merit, rewarding in-depth exploration.
http://stashdauber.blogspot.ch/2013/12/allen-lowes-frustrated-maximalism.html
Hier gibt’s eines der Stücke mit Kalaparusha:
https://soundcloud.com/allenlowe-1/im-an-old-regular-baptist-mp3
Das ist aber keinesfalls „typisch“ für die Musik, „typisch“ gibt es hier wohl eh nicht …
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