Thu September 8, 2022
Bill Frisell Trio with Gerald Cleaver and Ambrose Akinmusire
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Bill Frisell's career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings, whose catalog has been cited by Downbeat as "the best recorded output of the decade."
Wire, the British music publication has observed: "What's really distinctive is Frisell's feel for the shape of songs, for their architecture; it's a virtuosity of deep structure rather than surface."
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Drummer Gerald Cleaver unfairly has been pigeonholed as a free-jazz player for much of his career, though his efforts as a bandleader and composer provide much more than that.
Cleaver long ago achieved elevated status as one of the most versatile drummers in jazz and improvised music, a performer blind to the often-arbitrary lines that distinguish schools of musical thought. He sounds just as comfortable and authoritative in bands that swing as he does in groups that play abstractly, and he's been gracefully straddling those aesthetic worlds since emerging from his native Detroit in a late-1990s band led by bassist Rodney Whitaker.
"Gerald is a perfect example of the Detroit style of playing jazz, at least the generation that I came up in...He walks in all of the styles of jazz." - Downbeat
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During his 15-year career, Ambrose Akinmusire has paradoxically situated himself in both the center and the periphery of jazz, most recently emerging in classical and hip hop circles. He's on a perpetual quest for new paradigms, masterfully weaving inspiration from other genres, arts, and life in general into compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching. His unorthodox approach to sound and composition make him a regular on critics polls and have earned him earned him grants and commissions from the Doris Duke Foundation, the MAP Fund, the Kennedy Center The Berlin Jazz Festival and the Monterey Jazz. While Akinmusire continues to garner accolades, his reach is always beyond--himself, his instrument, genre, form, preconceived notions, and anything else imposing limitations.
Motivated primarily by the spiritual and practical value of art, Akinmusire wants to remove the wall of erudition surrounding his music. He aspires to create richly textured emotional landscapes that tell the stories of the community, record the time, and change the standard. While committed to continuing the lineage of black invention and innovation, he manages to honor tradition without being stifled by it.
Akinmusire is a rigorous practitioner with an uncompromising dedication to creation. "I've learned to accept the consequences of believing in invention and creativity. You're gonna be misunderstood. But my horse blinders have gotten a lot longer and lot thicker over the years."
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Wire, the British music publication has observed: "What's really distinctive is Frisell's feel for the shape of songs, for their architecture; it's a virtuosity of deep structure rather than surface."
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Drummer Gerald Cleaver unfairly has been pigeonholed as a free-jazz player for much of his career, though his efforts as a bandleader and composer provide much more than that.
Cleaver long ago achieved elevated status as one of the most versatile drummers in jazz and improvised music, a performer blind to the often-arbitrary lines that distinguish schools of musical thought. He sounds just as comfortable and authoritative in bands that swing as he does in groups that play abstractly, and he's been gracefully straddling those aesthetic worlds since emerging from his native Detroit in a late-1990s band led by bassist Rodney Whitaker.
"Gerald is a perfect example of the Detroit style of playing jazz, at least the generation that I came up in...He walks in all of the styles of jazz." - Downbeat
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During his 15-year career, Ambrose Akinmusire has paradoxically situated himself in both the center and the periphery of jazz, most recently emerging in classical and hip hop circles. He's on a perpetual quest for new paradigms, masterfully weaving inspiration from other genres, arts, and life in general into compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching. His unorthodox approach to sound and composition make him a regular on critics polls and have earned him earned him grants and commissions from the Doris Duke Foundation, the MAP Fund, the Kennedy Center The Berlin Jazz Festival and the Monterey Jazz. While Akinmusire continues to garner accolades, his reach is always beyond--himself, his instrument, genre, form, preconceived notions, and anything else imposing limitations.
Motivated primarily by the spiritual and practical value of art, Akinmusire wants to remove the wall of erudition surrounding his music. He aspires to create richly textured emotional landscapes that tell the stories of the community, record the time, and change the standard. While committed to continuing the lineage of black invention and innovation, he manages to honor tradition without being stifled by it.
Akinmusire is a rigorous practitioner with an uncompromising dedication to creation. "I've learned to accept the consequences of believing in invention and creativity. You're gonna be misunderstood. But my horse blinders have gotten a lot longer and lot thicker over the years."
Bill Frisell's career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings, whose catalog has been cited by Downbeat as "the best recorded output of the decade."
Wire, the British music publication has observed: "What's really distinctive is Frisell's feel for the shape of songs, for their architecture; it's a virtuosity of deep structure rather than surface."
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Drummer Gerald Cleaver unfairly has been pigeonholed as a free-jazz player for much of his career, though his efforts as a bandleader and composer provide much more than that.
Cleaver long ago achieved elevated status as one of the most versatile drummers in jazz and improvised music, a performer blind to the often-arbitrary lines that distinguish schools of musical thought. He sounds just as comfortable and authoritative in bands that swing as he does in groups that play abstractly, and he's been gracefully straddling those aesthetic worlds since emerging from his native Detroit in a late-1990s band led by bassist Rodney Whitaker.
"Gerald is a perfect example of the Detroit style of playing jazz, at least the generation that I came up in...He walks in all of the styles of jazz." - Downbeat
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During his 15-year career, Ambrose Akinmusire has paradoxically situated himself in both the center and the periphery of jazz, most recently emerging in classical and hip hop circles. He's on a perpetual quest for new paradigms, masterfully weaving inspiration from other genres, arts, and life in general into compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching. His unorthodox approach to sound and composition make him a regular on critics polls and have earned him earned him grants and commissions from the Doris Duke Foundation, the MAP Fund, the Kennedy Center The Berlin Jazz Festival and the Monterey Jazz. While Akinmusire continues to garner accolades, his reach is always beyond--himself, his instrument, genre, form, preconceived notions, and anything else imposing limitations.
Motivated primarily by the spiritual and practical value of art, Akinmusire wants to remove the wall of erudition surrounding his music. He aspires to create richly textured emotional landscapes that tell the stories of the community, record the time, and change the standard. While committed to continuing the lineage of black invention and innovation, he manages to honor tradition without being stifled by it.
Akinmusire is a rigorous practitioner with an uncompromising dedication to creation. "I've learned to accept the consequences of believing in invention and creativity. You're gonna be misunderstood. But my horse blinders have gotten a lot longer and lot thicker over the years."
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Wire, the British music publication has observed: "What's really distinctive is Frisell's feel for the shape of songs, for their architecture; it's a virtuosity of deep structure rather than surface."
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Drummer Gerald Cleaver unfairly has been pigeonholed as a free-jazz player for much of his career, though his efforts as a bandleader and composer provide much more than that.
Cleaver long ago achieved elevated status as one of the most versatile drummers in jazz and improvised music, a performer blind to the often-arbitrary lines that distinguish schools of musical thought. He sounds just as comfortable and authoritative in bands that swing as he does in groups that play abstractly, and he's been gracefully straddling those aesthetic worlds since emerging from his native Detroit in a late-1990s band led by bassist Rodney Whitaker.
"Gerald is a perfect example of the Detroit style of playing jazz, at least the generation that I came up in...He walks in all of the styles of jazz." - Downbeat
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During his 15-year career, Ambrose Akinmusire has paradoxically situated himself in both the center and the periphery of jazz, most recently emerging in classical and hip hop circles. He's on a perpetual quest for new paradigms, masterfully weaving inspiration from other genres, arts, and life in general into compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching. His unorthodox approach to sound and composition make him a regular on critics polls and have earned him earned him grants and commissions from the Doris Duke Foundation, the MAP Fund, the Kennedy Center The Berlin Jazz Festival and the Monterey Jazz. While Akinmusire continues to garner accolades, his reach is always beyond--himself, his instrument, genre, form, preconceived notions, and anything else imposing limitations.
Motivated primarily by the spiritual and practical value of art, Akinmusire wants to remove the wall of erudition surrounding his music. He aspires to create richly textured emotional landscapes that tell the stories of the community, record the time, and change the standard. While committed to continuing the lineage of black invention and innovation, he manages to honor tradition without being stifled by it.
Akinmusire is a rigorous practitioner with an uncompromising dedication to creation. "I've learned to accept the consequences of believing in invention and creativity. You're gonna be misunderstood. But my horse blinders have gotten a lot longer and lot thicker over the years."
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