Shadowgraph 5 (Sextet)

シカゴAACMに籍を置くトロンボーン奏者ジョージ・ルイスはロスコー・ミッチェルやアンソニー・ブラクストンの下で頭角を現しましたが、70年代半ば以降、自らがリーダーになってのレコーディングでもユニークな才能を示し続けてきました。76年の初リーダー作は完全ソロ演奏から成っていましたが、3作目となるこのBlack Saint盤はセクステットによる録音。ムハル・リチャード・エイブラムズ、アンソニー・デイヴィス、アブドゥル・ワドゥ、ロスコー・ミッチェル、リロイ・ジェンキンズ、ダグラス・イワートと、いずれもAACM絡みのミュージシャンを集めてルイスが展開する音楽は、AACM系ミュージシャン特有の構成能力と独自のフリー感覚を駆使して聴き手の心に深く突き刺さります。

A CD re-issue of the 1978 disc. Contains: "Monads" for an ensemble (with Anthony Davis, piano; Douglas Ewart, bass clarinet; Leroy Jenkins, violin; G. Lewis, alto and tenor trombones; Roscoe Mitchell, soprano sax; Abdul Wadud, cello) ...fleeting melodic fragments amidst pointillistic (but not "abstract" !) textures, constantly re-defined and varied; "Triple Slow Mix," a trio for two pianos and sousaphone ...a steady and slowly varied bass passacaglia surrounded by either extremely fast pointillistic playing or banal almost-quotes as if from music "literature," like a blase music student in his practice room just trying to make it through the day...every once in a while someone shouts "hey !" "Cycle" (with Lewis on Moog synthesizer)...humorous and touching solos of mid-range sounds, you smile and you don't know why; "Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet)" for the previous large ensemble, also with Muhal Richard Abrams, piano, and G. Lewis also on sound-tube ...someone near us is explaining something but we don't quite get it ...perhaps it's something "foreign" ...a tapestry of gestures, quick shadows of the initial event. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny|

A CD re-issue of the 1978 disc. Contains: "Monads" for an ensemble (with Anthony Davis, piano; Douglas Ewart, bass clarinet; Leroy Jenkins, violin; G. Lewis, alto and tenor trombones; Roscoe Mitchell, soprano sax; Abdul Wadud, cello) ...fleeting melodic fragments amidst pointillistic (but not "abstract" !) textures, constantly re-defined and varied; "Triple Slow Mix," a trio for two pianos and sousaphone ...a steady and slowly varied bass passacaglia surrounded by either extremely fast pointillistic playing or banal almost-quotes as if from music "literature," like a blase music student in his practice room just trying to make it through the day...every once in a while someone shouts "hey !" "Cycle" (with Lewis on Moog synthesizer)...humorous and touching solos of mid-range sounds, you smile and you don't know why; "Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet)" for the previous large ensemble, also with Muhal Richard Abrams, piano, and G. Lewis also on sound-tube ...someone near us is explaining something but we don't quite get it ...perhaps it's something "foreign" ...a tapestry of gestures, quick shadows of the initial event. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny