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| The Peace of Wild Things - Singing and Saving the Poets |
| Jay Clayton |
| első megjelenés éve: 2008 |
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| (2008)
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| 5.180 Ft
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| 1. | Free Me
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| 2. | Why Because
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| 3. | Sometimes
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| 4. | Let It Go
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| 5. | Love Is a Place
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| 6. | Sheila's Dream
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| 7. | Secrets of Living
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| 8. | The Peace of Wild Things
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| 9. | No Words, Only a Feeling
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Jazz
Jay Clayton - vocals
There is no instrument as expressive as the human voice. Jay Clayton has made it her life's work to innovate and push the limits of her instrument. The Peace Of Wild Things finds Clayton contemplating the words of some legendary poets, most notably e.e. cummings, in the most personal way, just her voice with electronic manipulation.
* Christopher Drukker - Graphic Design
* Jay Anderson - Engineer, Producer
* Jay Clayton - Producer
* Richard Conde - Photography
It is not recent news that Jay Clayton is one of the most phenomenal vocalists in creative improvised music. What she offers in terms of flexibility, diversity, durability, and keen originality sets a high standard for all other "singers." This solo recording has Clayton in her usual mode of combining lyrics with wordless vocals in her own ethereal way, while adding spoken prose, poetry, and an electronic palate to the proceedings. The result is unlike any other vocal recording you might have ever heard this side of Urszula Dudziak, Grazyna Auguscik, or maybe the more experimental side of Joni Mitchell. What Clayton brings to the table is pure elegiac savvy, an earth mother's wisdom, a siren's sensuality, and a challenged soul. There are many examples here of her chemical alchemy; using her voice as a dumbek during "Love Is a Place," evoking ghostly atmospheric spirits for the title track, or speaking of creationism via "God's big breath" on "Why, Because." Her multi-tracked voice on "Sometimes" evokes Native American motifs, and her heartfelt association with Sheila Jordan. She exclaims "sometimes I think/I'm not so sure/I know I don't/really want to/just don't care/ought to know". Then, as most would expect for "Free Me," after an overdubbed counterpoint and sampled mbira in modal 7/7 time, she is wanting to sing like the birds "not worrying about who hears, or what they think". The all spoken "Let It Go" is most prosaic, "Secrets of Living" a scatted child's song with the sweetest of harmony lines, and "No Words, Only a Feeling" actually has lyrics rendered in an underlying dark tone in an amazing display of multiple techniques and sonics that are simple and complex, elegant and playful, and deeply profound. Of the many excellent projects Jay Clayton has offered, this is her very best effort, one that comes highly recommended, and lifts the art of improvisational vocal music to a new level. It's near perfect.
---Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Jay Clayton
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Avant-Garde, Ballads, Standards, Avant-Garde Jazz
Jay Clayton is both a very significant singer in the jazz avant-garde and a highly influential educator. Clayton learned standards very early from hearing her mother sing around their house. She took private piano lessons from a young age and studied at the St. Louis Institute for Music for a short time. She graduated from Miami University in Oxford, OH in 1963 with a degree in Music Education. Although she studied classical music at school, Clayton sang jazz on the weekends at local clubs. After graduation she moved to New York. While at first she sang standards in clubs, she became one of the first jazz singers to start performing with freer and more avant-garde musicians, in addition to utilizing electronics and interacting with poets. An abbreviated list of her associates through the years includes saxophonists Mark Whitecage, Steve Lacy, Jane Ira Bloom, and Gary Bartz, clarinetist Perry Robinson, trombonist Julian Priester, pianists Muhal Richard Abrams, and George Cables, and the innovative a cappella group Vocal Summit, which teamed her with Jeanne Lee, Urszula Dudziak, Bobby McFerrin, and Norma Winstone.
As an educator, Clayton was inspired by Sheila Jordan and has become just as influential. She has taught at a countless number of seminars, workshops, and master classes, was on the jazz faculty of Cornish College of the Arts for 20 years, and has taught at Universitat fur Musik in Austria, the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop, City College, the New School in New York City, the Vermont Jazz Workshop and the Banff Center in Canada. As a singer, Clayton has been well documented through the years, recording for such labels as Anima, Hep, West Wind, ITM, Winter & Winter and Sound Winds. She has also recorded a duo set of standards with pianist Fred Hersch, Beautiful Love, for Sunnyside.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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