Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson & Dave King – Broken Shadows (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:30 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Broken Shadows brings together four luminaries of the American jazz scene: Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King. Broken Shadows has very strong connections, intwos. Saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed have been playing together since 1992; Bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King – two thirds of the legendary band The Bad Plus –have been playing together for over 35 years.Named after an Ornette Coleman composition, this all-star project honors the legacy of the music of their idols and mentors Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Julius Hemphill. “Most all of the songs have melodies; infectious and singable.Songs you would want to put in your pocket and take them home.In a time of songs treated as vehicles for improvisation, with this band, the vehicle is the song”, writes Branford Marsalis in the liner notes, celebrating the emotional power and impact of BrokenShadows: “Harmonic data does not create emotion; the ability to change color in ones sound does. This is something that Broken Shadows understand, be it explicit or implicit. The twelve tracks range from lamentation, or insouciant swagger, to utter joy, and all the colors in between.”
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Reid Anderson, Dave King & Craig Taborn – Golden Valley Is Now (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:27 minutes | 563 MB | Genre: Jazz
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In 2010, Bad Plus drummer Dave King, his bandmate bassist/keyboardist Reid Anderson, and pianist/synthesist Craig Taborn performed together at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis as part of the drummer’s King for Two Days Extravaganza. The music they offered, while fully imbued with their individual musical personas, bore little resemblance to their better-known projects. This trio’s members, all from different parts of Golden Valley, Minnesota, have known one another and played together off and on since high school. They explore rock, punk, and post-punk, electronic music, jazz, and indie pop together and separately. All are lovers of songs above all else, despite the fact they are highly developed improvising jazzmen. Given their wildly busy schedules, The Golden Valley Is Now took roughly a decade to come together. Recorded in August of 2018 in Minneapolis, these ten tracks have little — if anything — to do with jazz, and that’s a good thing.
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