Morenica

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Morenica
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Studio album by Anthony Coleman's Sephardic Tinge
Released October 20, 1998
Recorded 1998
Genre Jazz
Length48:24
Label Tzadik TZ 7128
Producer Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman chronology
The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same
(1998)		Morenica
(1998)		 With Every Breath: The Music of Shabbat at BJ
(1999)

Morenica is an album by pianist Anthony Coleman's Sephardic Tinge which was released on the Tzadik label in 1998. [1]

Anthony Coleman American musician

Anthony Coleman is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century.

Tzadik Records American record label

Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995. He is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a not-for-profit, cooperative record label.

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In his review for Allmusic, David Freedlander states "this album further establishes Coleman as one of Downtown's most accomplished pianists and intelligent composers". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Coleman except as indicated

  1. "La Cantiga Fuego" (Traditional) - 3:55
  2. "She's Doing It Again" - 2:43
  3. "He Would Turn in His Grave" - 5:14
  4. "Yaëlica" - 7:41
  5. "Addio Querida" (Traditional) - 6:03
  6. "Ghetto (Ich Bin Ein Marrano)" - 2:30
  7. "Terpsichore" (Herbie Nichols) - 5:29
  8. "Selo Moje" - 3:41
  9. "Berechit" - 4:21
  10. "Morenica" (Traditional) - 6:47

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Ben Street American musician

Ben Street is an American jazz double bassist. Street has performed and recorded with many renowned artists, including John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Monder, Michael Eckroth, Sam Rivers, Billy Hart, Danilo Perez, and Adam Cruz, among others.

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. ↑ Tzadik catalogue accessed January 15, 2014
  2. 1 2 Freedlander, David. Sephardic Tinge – Morenica > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 15, 2014.
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