Illuminate | ||||
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Studio album by Joe Morris and Rob Brown | ||||
Released | 1995 | |||
Recorded | November 9, 1993 | |||
Studio | Tedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 53:24 | |||
Label | Leo | |||
Producer | Joe Morris, Rob Brown, Leo Feigin | |||
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Illuminate is an album by a quartet co-led by jazz guitarist Joe Morris and alto saxophonist Rob Brown, which was recorded in 1993 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of Leo Records. Rehearsing and recording this album was the first time the quartet worked together as a band, although Morris played with Brown before on Youniverse and the trio without Morris recorded High Wire . [1]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek says about the album that "it's a challenging and deeply satisfying set of music by a short-lived but gifted quartet." [2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "the defining characteristic of the music on Illuminate is the responsiveness of the player to one another." [3]
Point of Departure is a studio album by American jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill, recorded in 1964 and released in 1965 on the Blue Note label. It features Hill in a sextet with alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Tony Williams.
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