Age of Everything

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Age of Everything
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Studio album by
Released2002
RecordedJanuary 20, 2002
StudioRiti Studios, Guilford, Connecticut
Genre Jazz
Length53:05
Label Riti
Producer Joe Morris
Joe Morris chronology
Singularity
(2001)
Age of Everything
(2002)
Likewise
(2003)

Age of Everything is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris, which was recorded in 2002 and released on his own Riti label. He leads a new trio with bassist Timo Shanko and drummer Luther Gray. [1]

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Reception

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "Again, just four large slabs of music, uncompromisingly played and with that deceptively linear approach which suggests that harmonic depth isn't the first thing that excites the guitarist." [2]

In an article for the Chicago Tribune , Howard Reich states "Whether improvising freely above a straight swing backbeat by bassist Timo Shanko and drummer Luther Gray or creating openly lyric melody lines in unaccompanied statements, Morris takes pains to give listeners entree into an otherwise rarefied but daringly innovative musical language." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Morris
  1. "Tree Branch" – 11:43
  2. "Way In" – 15:10
  3. "Age of Everything" – 11:25
  4. "Telepathy" – 14:47

Personnel

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References

  1. Riti Records at AUM Fidelity
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp.  948. ISBN   978-0-141-02327-4.
  3. Reich, Howard. Age of Everything at Chicago Tribune