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| 1. | Creator Has Plans for Me
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| 2. | Life Wants You T Love
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| 3. | Cause and Effect
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| 4. | Love Has No Boundaries
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| 5. | Black Unstoppable
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| 6. | February
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| 7. | Thanking the Universe
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Dave Katzman - Mixing
David Allen Young - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
David Boykin - Percussion, Sax (Tenor)
Eric Butkus - Engineer, Mixing
Josh Abrams - Bass
Kalamu Ya Salaam - Liner Notes
Michael Jackson - Photography
Robert G. Koester - Producer, Supervisor
Steve Wagner - Editing, Engineer, Mixing, Producer, Supervisor
Tomeka Reid - Cello, Shakere
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu - Vocals
On November 5, 2007, Delmark put out two Nicole Mitchell releases titled Black Unstoppable. One was a 71-minute audio CD that was recorded in a Chicago studio on May 28-30, 2007, while the other was a live DVD recorded at Chicago's Velvet Lounge on June 8 and 9, 2007. Flutist Mitchell leads her Black Earth Ensemble on both the studio CD and the live DVD, and most of the songs on the CD are also performed on the DVD. The lineup on both releases is mostly the same; however, pianist Justin Dillard appears on parts of the CD but is absent from the pianoless DVD. Stylistically, there are no major differences between the CD and the DVD, but when you are dealing with the sound of surprise (the late Whitney Balliett's description of jazz), the same song is likely to yield different improvisations when played different times -- and Mitchell, being the lover of improvisation that she is, sees to it that the live versions of these songs are not just note-for-note re-creations of the studio versions. Mitchell's Velvet Lounge performances definitely exemplify the sound of surprise, which is not to say that her Black Unstoppable DVD is the work of a jazz snob who believes that all music other than jazz is worthless. Mitchell's very spiritual jazz -- some of it is best described as post-bop, some of it avant-garde -- incorporates elements of everything from world music (especially African music) to soul and funk; female vocalist Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, a big-voiced belter who is featured on three songs, has no problem combining R&B's grit with jazz' spontaneity. Despite Mitchell's AACM credentials, most of this material isn't terribly left of center. The performances, on the whole, are melodic and fairly accessible, and there is more inside playing than outside playing on this excellent live DVD. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Nicole Mitchell
Active Decade: '00s
Born: 1967 in Syracuse, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz
Chicago Afrocentric singer/flutist/piccolo player Nicole Mitchell has been part of the area's jazzexperimental music scene since the early '90s. First lending her talents to other artist's projects (David Boykin, Ed Wilkerson), Mitchell issued her solo debut in 2001, titled Vision Quest, credited to Nicole Mitchell and Black Earth Ensemble. Joined on the recording by a host of other musicians (violinists Savoir Faire and Edith Yokley, bassist Darius Savage, plus percussionists Hamid Drake and Avreeayl Ra), Vision Quest received favorable reviews in the Chicago music press, as avant-jazz veteran (and fellow flutist) James Newton offered praise, saying that Newton "has produced new techniques that have not yet been heard from any other flutist." A year later, Afrika Rising arrived on Dreamtime Records. It was also credited to the MitchellBlack Earth Ensemble combination, continuing her collaborations with the large Chicago-area ensemble.
---Greg Prato, All Music Guide |
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