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| 1. | In Media Res
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| 2. | Accumulated Gestures
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| 3. | Sublimation
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| 4. | Generations
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| 5. | Mosaic
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| 6. | Sympathy
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| 7. | Step Lively
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| 8. | Horoscape
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| 9. | The Inner World
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| 10. | Path of Action
For Horace Tapscott
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Jazz
Recorded at Sorcerer Sound Studios, New York, New York on March 27, 2002
Aaron Stewart - Sax (Tenor)
Elliot Humberto Kavee - Drums
Vijay Iyer - Piano
Your Life Flashes is a powerful response to European accusations of stagnation in America's creative music; it is emotional, challenging, experimental, edgy, hard-hitting, and intense. The music comes in cascades and torrents, demanding the listener’s undivided attention. As much as the group is inspired by the three players' involvement with luminaries who have dominated creative jazz during the past four decades, it is also inspired by improvisational and rhythmic traditions from around the world as well as by contemporary urban dance grooves.
Fieldwork is a collective trio comprising three of the creative jazz world’s admired young session men - Aaron Stewart on tenor saxophone, Vijay Iyer on piano, and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums. Within Fieldwork they challenge, inspire and impel each other into new avenues of improvisation, accompaniment and composition, realizing ideas they couldn't have created in any other context. This unique, unfettered and dynamic approach results from Fieldwork's process of using composed material as seeds for extended collaborative development and exploration, rather than as pre-fab 'tunes' to be brought into rehearsal and played as written. Don't take that to mean that everything Fieldwork plays is free improv. Much of it is, but much is also pre-conceived and written down. Fieldwork is a band, built somewhat defiantly on the model of rock bands, but using that organizational structure as a basis to explore creative improvisational music.
Iyer, Stewart and Kavee see Fieldwork as an opportunity to explore the jazz tradition from within, viewing their trio's music as an investigation into their individual natures as creative artists, rather than being about overt stylistic references that retread familiar musical material. In bypassing the cul-de-sac of stylistic pastiche, Fieldwork endeavors to remain true to the source of jazz - the creative spirit and life itself.
* Alan Nahigian - Photography
* Cookie Marenco - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer
* Fieldwork - Arranger, Producer
* Seth Rosner - Executive Producer
Tenor saxophonist Aaron Stewart, pianist Vijay Iyer, and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee are Fieldwork, a trio as unorthodox in instrumentation as it is in methodology. Bringing extensive M-Base and free improvisational experience to the table, these players function together as a kind of musical laboratory. Their compositions are an outgrowth of their unique rehearsal process, which involves the exhaustive repetition of enormously subtle rhythmic patterns and cycles. The results are largely pulse-based, with written lines and figures setting up moonscapes of dense, rhythmically absorbing improvisation. Like much of what Iyer creates under his own name, this music has the distinction of being toe-tappingly accessible and yet, on a technical level, nearly incomprehensible. It is a highly specialized language, to be sure, but also an endlessly refreshing one. The absence of bass, moreover, ensures an unconventional timbre at all times. Highlights include the nearly hummable melody of "Horoscope," the gradual decelerando of "Step Lively," the unearthly harmonic darkness of "Generations" and "The Inner World," the fractured, funky shuffle of "Sublimation," and the maddeningly complex tom-tom patterns of "Sympathy," a brain-teaser for the ages.
---David R. Adler, All Music Guide |
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