Joe Morris Quartet - A Cloud Of Black Birds (1998)

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Title: A Cloud Of Black Birds
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: AUM Fidelity
Genre: Free Improvisation, Avant-Garde Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 57:36
Total Size: 321 Mb / 146 Mb
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Tracklist:

01. Threshold 10:54
02. Mesmeric 8:06
03. A Cloud Of Black Birds 8:48
04. Emblem 8:54
05. Renascent (Morris + Maneri Duo) 4:07
06. Radiant Flux 9:52
07. Take Place 6:34

Personnel:
Bass – Chris Lightcap
Drums – Jerome Deupree
Guitar, Producer – Joe Morris
Violin – Mat Maneri

Violinist Mat Maneri, bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Jerome Deupree join the adventurous Joe Morris on these seven tracks. The music is intense and challenging, but it has a certain airiness -- unlike when, say, Matthew Shipp and William Parker are in the picture. The Maneri-Morris combo makes for arresting contrasts in string timbre, particularly on their one duet, "Renascent," where Morris manages to sound almost like a tabla drum. "Threshold" and "Radiant Flux" have coherent melodies and feature the rhythm section at their best, grooving in a fractured yet propulsive way. Morris makes yet more timbral discoveries on the title track, over a mid-tempo swing feel. As for the "cloud of black birds" in question, it's part of a difficult childhood memory that Morris shares eloquently in his liner notes.