Sounds (Rob Brown album)

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Sounds
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Studio album by
Released2007
RecordedNovember 23, 2006
StudioFirehouse 12, New Haven
Genre Jazz
Length57:39
Label Clean Feed
Producer Rob Brown
Rob Brown chronology
We Are Not Obstinate Islands
(2006)
Sounds
(2007)
Right Hemisphere
(2008)

Sounds is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 2006 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label. Instead of the conventional sax-bass-drums trio, it features an alternative combination with Brown on alto sax, Daniel Levin on cello and Japanese Satoshi Takeishi on a percussion set completed with taiko drums. [1]

Contents

The title track is a three-part suite composed for a multimedia performance that includes dance and visual art. It was debuted at the 2005 Vision Festival with the Nancy Zendora Dance Company and video art by Jo Wood-Brown. [2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]

The All About Jazz review by Sean Patrick Fitzell notes that "The textural range of the instrumentation, particularly the exotic percussion and the music's spaciousness of form allows for non-idiomatic exploration that is not strictly free improvisation." [4]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "A logical move to employ Levin, given how much Brown seems to relish a singing bass tone and long, legato lines... Things as 'Stutter Step' underline how much of Brown's language still comes from the '60s avant-garde, but there is considerable more going on here." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Rob Brown except as indicated
  1. "Sounds part I Archaeology" – 12:30
  2. "Sounds part II Antics" – 6:27
  3. "Sounds part III Astir" – 10:34
  4. "Sutter Step" – 4:25
  5. "Tibetan Folk Song" (Traditional) – 8:47
  6. "Sinew" – 7:33
  7. "Moment of Pause" – 7:23

Personnel

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References

  1. Sounds Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine at Clean Feed
  2. Original Liner Notes by Rob Brown
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 186–187. ISBN   0141034017.
  4. Fitzell, Sean Patrick. Sounds review at All About Jazz