Sorey, Tyshawn / Oblique-I
| Album: | Oblique-I | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Sorey, Tyshawn | Added: | Nov 2011 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2011-11-13 | Pull Date: | 2012-01-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Jan 15 | Jan 8 | Jan 1 | Dec 25 | Dec 18 | Dec 4 | Nov 27 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 14, 2012: | Music Casserole
Twenty-Five |
4. | Dec 27, 2011: | Rebop
Twenty-Four |
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| 2. | Jan 10, 2012: | Rebop
Twenty |
5. | Dec 23, 2011: | Memory Select
Twenty |
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| 3. | Jan 03, 2012: | Rebop
Thirty-Five |
6. | Dec 16, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum
Twenty-Five |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2011-11-13
Reviewed 2011-11-13
TYSHAWN SOREY: Oblique-I
Pi, 2011
AVANT-JAZZ – Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been widely acclaimed as an up & coming force in creative jazz, and his work as a sideman on recordings by Steve Coleman, Steve Lehman and others (mostly on Pi) has been excellent. But his own releases have been starkly minimalist. Now, Sorey finally breaks out with spellbinding compositions and an ace quintet, giving ten marvelous studies in concentrated complexity.
Tyshawn Sorey : drums
Loren Stillman : alto sax
Todd Neufeld : guitars
John Escreet : piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer
Chris Tordini : bass
Try any track! Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
1. 7:24 – tumbling, clattering, angular… fast & free ensemble, sax thinks it out
2. 3:40 – cerebral sax refracts odd piano chords; dusky bass & drums go deep
3. 11:00 – keyboard sets up trudging, cyclical march; sax expands, guitar drifts
4. 4:50 – solo saxophone (Loren Stillman) hops and creeps
5. 6:00 – midtempo pressing theme; piano, sax & drums stretch it apart nicely
6. 6:52 – calm, curving feel: quintet moves with grace, sax solo reaches out
7. 8:47 – jittery parallel improv & oddball grooves, rubber-band guitar sound
8. 8:58 – slow, quiet dreamscape: soft drums creep under enigmatic solos
9. 12:03 – knotty theme; great drums drive solos; some wide-open spaces
10. 7:00 – trios steps carefully, gradually builds up a surge; quintet slinks away
[ Fo ] - November 2011
Pi, 2011
AVANT-JAZZ – Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been widely acclaimed as an up & coming force in creative jazz, and his work as a sideman on recordings by Steve Coleman, Steve Lehman and others (mostly on Pi) has been excellent. But his own releases have been starkly minimalist. Now, Sorey finally breaks out with spellbinding compositions and an ace quintet, giving ten marvelous studies in concentrated complexity.
Tyshawn Sorey : drums
Loren Stillman : alto sax
Todd Neufeld : guitars
John Escreet : piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer
Chris Tordini : bass
Try any track! Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
1. 7:24 – tumbling, clattering, angular… fast & free ensemble, sax thinks it out
2. 3:40 – cerebral sax refracts odd piano chords; dusky bass & drums go deep
3. 11:00 – keyboard sets up trudging, cyclical march; sax expands, guitar drifts
4. 4:50 – solo saxophone (Loren Stillman) hops and creeps
5. 6:00 – midtempo pressing theme; piano, sax & drums stretch it apart nicely
6. 6:52 – calm, curving feel: quintet moves with grace, sax solo reaches out
7. 8:47 – jittery parallel improv & oddball grooves, rubber-band guitar sound
8. 8:58 – slow, quiet dreamscape: soft drums creep under enigmatic solos
9. 12:03 – knotty theme; great drums drive solos; some wide-open spaces
10. 7:00 – trios steps carefully, gradually builds up a surge; quintet slinks away
[ Fo ] - November 2011
Track Listing
| 1. | Twenty | 6. | Twenty-Four | |||
| 2. | Eight | 7. | Seventeen | |||
| 3. | Thirty-Five | 8. | Twenty-Five | |||
| 4. | Eighteen | 9. | Fifteen | |||
| 5. | Forty | 10. | Thirty-Six |