| Abrams, Muhal Richard / Vision Towards Essence |
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| Album: | Vision Towards Essence | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Abrams, Muhal Richard | Added: | Sep 2007 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-09-02 | Pull Date: | 2007-11-04 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Sep 30 | Sep 16 | Sep 9 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 11, 2016: | Everything A to Z week 38 Part 2 | 4. | Sep 14, 2007: | Memory Select Part 2 [excerpt] | |
| 2. | Jul 25, 2009: | "In Your Ear ..." with Bug, an evening on saturday and birthday to greta Part 3, Part 2, Part 1 | 5. | Sep 06, 2007: | Emphysema For Emphasis Part 2, Part 1 | |
| 3. | Sep 28, 2007: | "In Your Ear ..." w/ d.Bug, for the one I want to be with someday, hopefully. Part 1 | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2007-09-01 | ||
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MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS: Vision Towards Essence Pi, 2007 FREE IMPROV – Staggering solo piano tour de force by a free-jazz giant, recorded live in 1998. This is a single 60-minute improvisation broken into 3 tracks for easier handling. The music is darkly impressionistic with a lot of range, mostly accessible but flying farther out as it goes. Fans of avant-jazz and modern classical will enjoy this. The 3 tracks work well, or you could switch to continuous play, fade in at any quiet spot and let it go for however long feels right. 1. 20:06 – starts calm, classical elements dance at the edges, growing more prominent; very dramatic and powerful middle, then takes on a spinning aspect, finally getting into unsettling, skewed refractions... 2. 18:23 – quietly tragic start, swells into huge storm clouds and gusts every which way, settles into bleakness then surges back, scrambling and tumbling; something like a cakewalk is blasted apart, and so on... 3. 20:16 – fast and splintered: disorienting sweeps, swoops and spins, then holds to a series of deliberate, steady pulses, churning like great engines; harsh, spiky section based on a low chord vs. a high note; becomes sparse with stabbing interjections, back to calm and out. [ Fo ] 1-Sep-07 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Part 1 | 2. | Part 2 | |||
| 3. | Part 3 | |||||