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- Date Released: January 1, 1998
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Avant-garde
- Label: Lovely Music / IODA
Jazz avant-garde's man for all seasons plays with lyrical freedom and rough grace
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We Say...
Though he's a violinist in an improvisation scene dominated by horn players, Leroy Jenkins never sounded like an odd man out. He was at home in all sorts of settings: heading an electro-acoustic quintet with George Lewis for Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America; fronting tough bass and drums in his Revolutionary Ensemble; blending with Min Xiao-Fen's Chinese pipa in the quartet Driftwood, and with pianist Myra Melford and Art Ensemble saxophonist Joseph Jarman in the trio Equal Interest. He composed for and improvised with chamber orchestra. Yet for all his collaborative music-making, Jenkins is especially strong on this 1992 solo recital. On the one hand, he uses a dictionary's worth of the sort of "extended techniques" new music composers favor; on the other, he plays with the lyrical freedom and rough grace of a backwoods fiddler at a Saturday night dance: an elusive combination no one pulled off better.
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They Say...
An extraordinary CD of solo violin and viola improvisations by the composer/performer who has been called "not only the father of extended improvisational string music, but also one of the guiding lights of creative music as a whole" (String Magazine). In other words, "no violinist in the field can touch Leroy Jenkins" (The Village Voice). The selections on this CD cover a wide spectrum of expression and ideas in both Jenkins' original compositions and his reading of two modern classics by Gillespie and Coltrane: "Blues #1," "Um Cha Chi Chum," "Hipnosis," "Big Wood," "Folk Song," "Off the Top of My Head," "Wouldn't You" (Dizzy Gillespie), "Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl," "Keep on Trucking Brother," "Festival Finale," and the famous "Giant Steps" (John Coltrane).
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| 01. |  |
Blues #1 |
6:44 |
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| 02. | |
Um Cha Chi Chum |
4:01 |
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| 03. | |
Hipnosis |
3:40 |
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| 04. | |
Big Wood (Viola) |
7:52 |
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| 05. | |
Folk Song (Viola) |
5:44 |
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| 06. | |
Off the Top of My Head |
4:56 |
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| 07. | |
Wouldn't You
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3:30 |
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| 08. | |
Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl |
4:18 |
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| 09. | |
Keep on Trucking Brother |
2:53 |
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| 10. | |
Festival Finale |
5:35 |
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| 11. | |
Giant Steps
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4:07 |
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11 Total Tracks, 53:20 Total Length
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Credits
- Leroy Jenkins - Main Performer // Allan Tucker - Mastering // Carl Baugher - Recorder // Carl Baugher - Liner Notes // Linda Harris - Photography
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