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| + artist ........... Frank LOWE Quintet |
| + album ............ Live Form Soundscape |
| + label ............ DIW |
| + cat .............. 399 |
| + year ............. 1994 |
| + genre ............ Jazz |
| + source ........... CDDA |
| + quality .......... 192kbps / 44,1Khz / Full Stereo |
| + release date ..... 03.11.2003 |
| + size ............. 93,8 MB |
| + link ............. www.diskunion.co.jp/diw/catalogue_e/DIW-399 |
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| 01.Be Prepared 15:00 |
| 02.Close To The Soul 18:22 |
| 03.Exotic Heartbreak 22:39 |
| 04.Face To Face 12:18 |
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| (t!) total 68:19 min |
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| Live from Soundscape |
| Frank Lowe Quintet | DIW |
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| Franck Lowe - Sax tenor |
| Lawrence Butch Morris - Cornet |
| Amina Claudine Myers - Piano |
| Wilber Morris - Bass |
| Tim Pleasant - Drums |
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| Recorded in a Soundscape session in 1994, the criminally |
| underrated saxophonist Frank Lowe brought an all-star band with |
| him to literally wipe out the audience with his mΘlange of blues, |
| rootsy R&B, free jazz, and gut bucket funk. With Amina Claudine |
| Myers on piano, Wilbur Morris on bass, Butch Morris on cornet, and |
| Tim Pleasant on drums, this is the record Lowe has been dreaming |
| to make all of his life. Featuring four of Lowe's more well-known |
| compositions, each stretched to its limits because of the diverse |
| talents of his musicians, Lowe has the foundation here to take his |
| deep blues explorations into the realm of gospel, modal music, and |
| even early American classical music α la the works of Copland, |
| Bernstein, and Stephen Foster for reasons known only to him. The |
| most striking work here is "Exotic Heartbreak," which begins with |
| a four-bar blues groove, slips into its muddy stride deep and |
| wide, and allows Lowe to investigate the underside of that music's |
| tonal colors and harmony, all the while keeping the framework |
| together. Butch Morris punctuates every line as if to remind all |
| the players where this music comes from, while Myers begins to |
| unravel it from the inside, stitching chromatic patterns in |
| counterpoint until she transforms melody and harmonic intervals to |
| resemble a droning, open piece of early Americana and European |
| folk song forms. As Lowe and Morris begin to take their |
| in-the-pocket funkiness apart, exchanging arpeggiated glances of |
| counterpoint along the way, it becomes obvious the listener has |
| entered the musical universe Lowe always talks about, the one |
| whose language cannot discuss boundaries because it acknowledges |
| none. By the time the blues return at the end of nearly 23 |
| minutes, Lowe has the band in full swinging dance form, enlarged |
| by the experience of having drifted into new territory, and deeper |
| in the foundations of the root tongue than ever before: a modern |
| jazz classic. |
| --------------> Thom Jurek @ AllMusic.com |
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