Divine Mad Love

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Divine Mad Love
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Studio album by
Released1998
RecordedFebruary 2, 1997
StudioPBS Studios, Westwood, Massachusetts
Genre Jazz
Length60:30
Label Eremite
Producer Michael Ehlers
Sabir Mateen chronology
Gettin' Away with Murder
(1997)
Divine Mad Love
(1998)
We Are Not At The Opera
(1999)

Divine Mad Love is an album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Sabir Mateen, which was recorded in 1997 and released on the Eremite label. [1]

Sabir Mateen American musician

Sabir Mateen is a musician and composer from Philadelphia who plays primarily in the avant-garde jazz idiom. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute.

Eremite Records

Eremite Records is an independent American jazz record label founded in 1995 by Michael Ehlers with early involvement from music writer Byron Coley. After college, Ehlers started producing some concerts around Amherst, Massachusetts and Eremite evolved from that. The label name came from an alternate title for the Thelonious Monk tune "Reflections": "Portrait of an Eremite". The logo is an image of an unknown man playing soprano saxophone. Eremite organized a concerts series in Western Massachusetts that continued until 2008 & produced nearly 100 concerts, including five Fire in the Valley festivals.

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Reception

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz says "Very much a group effort, with solo spots for both bassist and drummer, this seems too consciously designed to show off Mateen's not yet developed multi-instrumentalist." [2]

<i>The Penguin Guide to Jazz</i> book

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, two well known chroniclers of jazz resident in the United Kingdom.

The JazzTimes review by Amiri Baraka states "Full of energy and desire, without the wholeness or interior rationale of clear, riveting aesthetic cohesion." [3]

JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Davidson Sabin (1928–2018) as a newsletter called Radio Free Jazz. Sabine founded Radio Free Jazz to complement his Washington, D.C. record store that he founded in 1962. As a newsletter, it informed consumers of the latest jazz releases and provided jazz broadcasters with news and backstories related to playlists.

Track listing

  1. "Glory & Prause to the Most High" - 6:32
  2. "Checking in with Yourself" - 18:55
  3. "Conversation/Lunch before Departure" - 4:51
  4. "Running into the Truth (after Chasing a Lie)" - 9:57
  5. "Illuminations Flute" - 5:51
  6. "Divine Mad Love" - 8:27
  7. "Illuminations Bass" - 1:25
  8. "Illuminations Drums" - 2:13
  9. "WhyDidJaDolt?" - 2:19

Personnel

Clarinet type of woodwind instrument

The clarinet is a family of woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist.

Flute Musical instrument of the woodwind family

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. Divine Mad Love at Eremite
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2004). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th ed.). London: Penguin. pp.  1071. ISBN   0141014164.
  3. Baraka, Amiri. Divine Mad Love review at JazzTimes