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Hamiet Bluiett - Blueblack (2002) [Avant-Garde Jazz]; FLAC (tracks+cue)

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Hamiet Bluiett - Blueblack (2002) [Avant-Garde Jazz]; FLAC (tracks+cue)

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Artist: Hamiet Bluiett
Album: Blueblack
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz
Label: Justin Time
Released: 2002
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Tracklist:
  1. (You're Still) My Girl (In Spite of Everything) 06:42
  2. Humpback 06:12
  3. Zippin' 06:09
  4. Blueblack / Prelude to a Scream 07:52
  5. LG's Place 05:17
  6. Lamentation for JJ / Ballad for Babs 03:10
  7. Juxtaposition 08:39
  8. Angles 03:24
  9. Gittin' It Good 04:15
  10. Sasa - The Here and Now 03:33

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    Personnel:
  • Hamiet Bluiett - Baritone Sax
  • James Carter - Contrabass Clarinet,
  • Kahil El'Zabar - African Drums, Percussion, Vocals
  • Alex Harding - Bass Clarinet, Baritone Sax
  • Patience Higgins - Bass Clarinet, Baritone Sax
  • Lee Person - Trap Kit

The Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group strikes again. Four baritone saxes make for quite a wall of low-register sound, and every quartet member but Bluiett -- Patience Higgins, James Carter, and Alex Harding -- doubles on bass clarinet. In Carter's case, make that contra-bass clarinet, an instrument that can cause the room to shake. Since the horns have the bass function covered, all that's needed are drums; hence the presence of trapsman Lee Person and percussionist Kahil El'Zabar. This is a challenging listen, even if it starts with a playful, lushly harmonized "My Girl," the Motown hit. "Humpback," the first of five compositions by Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, immediately follows, its dark, smeary rubato harmonies and ultra-low-end textures evoking the murky world of the whale. Bluiett's contributions ("Blueblack/Prelude to a Scream," "Juxtaposition," "Sasa -- The Here and Now") tend to be more cacophonous, less structured; other tracks evoke a bright dance aesthetic ("Zippin'," "LG's Place"), touching upon what the late Lester Bowie liked to call "great black music." Taylor Perkinson's double tribute "Lamentation for JJ/Ballad for Babs" and his thoughtful "Angles" showcase the more elegant side of the quadruple-baritone configuration.
Review by David R. Adler

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