Your Life Flashes

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Your Life Flashes
Your Life Flashes cover.jpg
Studio album by
Fieldwork
Released2002
RecordedMarch 27, 2002
StudioSorcerer Sound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length50:01
Label Pi Recordings
Producer Fieldwork
Vijay Iyer chronology
Panoptic Modes
(2001)		Your Life Flashes
(2002)		 In What Language?
(2003)

Your Life Flashes is the debut album by Fieldwork, a collective trio consisting of Aaron Stewart on tenor saxophone, Vijay Iyer on piano, and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums, which was recorded in 2002 and released on Pi Recordings. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Tom Hull A– [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]

In his review for AllMusic, David R. Adler states, "Like much of what Iyer creates under his own name, this music has the distinction of being toe-tappingly accessible and yet, on a technical level, nearly incomprehensible. It is a highly specialized language, to be sure, but also an endlessly refreshing one." [2]

The JazzTimes review by Aaron Steinberg suggests, "Fieldwork's musicians have absorbed the highly rhythmic, dryly funky style that came out of the M-Base school and have adapted it to a cutting modern acoustic jazz setting. What sets Fieldwork apart, however, is the trio’s fervent and unwavering embrace of rhythm and attack." [5]

The All About Jazz review by Dan McLenaghan states, "Your Life Flashes sounds foreign and familiar and avant-garde and mainstream all at the same time." [6]

Track listing

All compositions by Vijay Iyer except where noted.

  1. "In Medias Res" – 6:03
  2. "Accumulated Gestures" – 5:43
  3. "Sublimination" (Aaron Stewart) – 4:37
  4. "Generations" – 5:49
  5. "Mosaic" (Aaron Stewart) – 4:51
  6. "Sympathy" – 4:21
  7. "Step Lively" – 2:53
  8. "Horoscape" – 4:51
  9. "The Inner World" – 5:29
  10. "Path of Action (for Horace Tapscott)" – 5:24

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Your Life Flashes on Pi Recordings
  2. 1 2 Adler, David R.. Fieldwork – Your Life Flashes: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ Hull, Tom. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Vijay Iyer". tomhull.com . Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 751. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Steinberg, Aaron. Your Life Flashes review at JazzTimes
  6. ↑ McLenaghan, Dan. Your Life Flashes review at All About Jazz
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