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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Ellery Eskelin
t i t l e : Forms
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : hatOLOGY 592
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Jan-2005
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 86,8 MB
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Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxphone
Drew Gress - double bass
Phil Haynes - drums
Of all the downtown New Yorkers on the jazz scene, especially
those who come from the avant-garde, saxophonist Ellery Eskelin
is the one who has made the most use of the various forms of
the jazz tradition. Here, accompanied by bassist Drew Gress and
drummer Phil Haynes, Eskelin makes an overt gesture to his
influences on the one hand, but uses his abilities to work out
further inside the given forms he's learned. Hence, all the
tracks -- with the exception of a phenomenal reading of Duke
Ellington's "African Flower" -- are elemental structural pieces
designed to express the very form they were composed in, which
includes the album's concluding piece, Dizzy Gillespie's
"Bebop." But it isn't enough to play exercises, at least not
for Eskelin; he has to make creative use of these shapes and
extend his compositional and improvisational palette, too. On
"Blues," he takes the standard I-IV-V progression and gradually
opens it up to include the bopper's take on playing the scales
in interval. With "In Three," he uses triplets, triads, and the
trio itself as compositional devices, working combinations of
the three sonorities to exemplify that an entire composition
can be made infinite by a trio with just three of the right
notes played by the right three players. On "Latin," Gress and
Haynes get to work out their craftiness in polyrhythmic time
and irregular intervallic figures as Eskelin seeks folk
melodies and modalism to anchor himself in the middle. Finally,
with "Bebop," he takes Gillespie's original anthem as far
outside as he can, keeping the same changes and harmonies, but
turns up the heat and cranks the timbral palette to the
outside, stuttering and spewing from his horn as Gress
punctures the rhythm with a breathtaking solo. This is Eskelin
jazz, folks; it's full of pathos, humor, and musically
sanctified soul.
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01-Blues [08:19]
02-In Three [08:49]
03-Ballad [10:28]
04-Latin [09:16]
05-Fleurette Africaine [10:31]
06-Vignettes [10:40]
07-Bebop [04:20]
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62:23 min
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