| What We Live / Especially the Traveller Tomor |
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| Album: | Especially the Traveller Tomor | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | What We Live | Added: | 09/2002 | |
| Label: | Metalanguage | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2002-10-07 | Pull Date: | 2002-12-09 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 24 Nov | 17 Nov | 3 Nov | 27 Oct | 20 Oct |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 15, 2006: | Memory Select - guest Amy X. Neuburg Especially the Traveller Tomorrow [excerpt: coda] | 4. | Oct 07, 2004: | Umami Jazz Program Xanic Rides | |
| 2. | Feb 04, 2005: | Memory Select As Yet Unknown | 5. | Feb 20, 2004: | Memory Select As Yet Unknown | |
| 3. | Oct 08, 2004: | Memory Select Spelled Backwards, Especially the Traveller Tomorrow [excerpt], As Yet Unknown | 6. | Nov 22, 2002: | Memory Select As Yet Unknown |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2002-10-03 | ||
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WHAT WE LIVE Local free-jazz trio that creates improvised journeys, staying in the jazz motif but with plenty of wandering. Overall they seem to go for a gently flowing sound, but they’re capable of the blurry energy of, say, Peter Brotzmann. Makes for great late-night listening, just a little bit dark and serious. This is the group’s sixth album. Drummer Donald Robinson is a particular treat, with subtle and tasteful fills and the occasional extroverted break. Larry Ochs (of ROVA Saxophone Quartet) gets unavoidably squeaky on sopranino sax but has a nice meaty sound on tenor. Bassist Lisle Ellis, who’s the founder of the trio, alternates between simple grooves and expansive wandering. All tracks start rather quiet but build well. 1- Shrill and towering at the start, nice. Drum solo, then a percolating midtempo groove. 2- Nice slow groove w/squawky sax that’s sometimes an awkward fit 3- Low-level disjoint groove 4- Falls into a midtempo bass groove. At -32:00, starts an aggressive tenor-sax segment. Kind of a cookin’ ending. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | As Yet Unknown | 3. | Xanic Rides | |||
| 2. | Spelled Backwards | 4. | Especially the Traveller ... |