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| 1. | Duet for Contrabass and Piano
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| 2. | Duet for Violin and Piano
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| 3. | Baritone Voice and String Quartet
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| 4. | Piano Duet 1
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| 5. | The Visibility of Thought
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| 6. | Piano Improvisation
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Jazz / Avant-Garde, Modern Creative, Modern Composition
Muhal Richard Abrams - Liner Notes, Synthesizer, Artwork, Producer, Sequencing, Piano, Cover Art, Computers
Dorothy Lawson Cello
Ethel Performer
Jon Deak Double Bass
Joseph Kubera Piano
Mark Feldman Violin
Mary Rowell Violin
Matthew Schickele Design, Cover Design
Nicholas Prout Mastering
Phillip Bush Piano
Ralph Farris Viola
Thomas Buckner Baritone
Todd Reynolds Violin
Tom Hamilton Engineer
Muhal Richard Abrams' work as a pianist in all forms of creative music derived from free jazz is well-known. It is not the case for his contemporary classical compositions. The Visibility of Thought was the first CD to focus on this part of his output. One of the first two initial releases by Thomas Buckner's label Mutable Music, it presents four contemporary pieces, one computer piece, and a 30-minute solo improvisation. Pianist Joseph Kubera is featured on three tracks. His duet with bassist Jon Deak ("Duet for Contrabass and Piano") features nice interplay but too much restraint. The same goes for the "Duet for Violin and Piano" with Mark Feldman, although here the listener feels something connecting with his deeper emotions. More flamboyant is "Baritone Voice and String Quartet" with Buckner and the ETHEL String Quartet. Here the disc reaches a highlight and some people might think of Charles Ives or Pierre Boulez. The "Piano Duet #1" (Kubera and Philip Bush) fails to strike as an inventive piece of music. The solemn computer piece "The Visibility of Thought" develops interesting textures, but one wishes it would be presented in a more appropriate context -- it feels out of place here. The "Piano Improvisation" completes the picture, featuring Abrams as a performer -- a great one. Strangely, it makes one wonder: "Why bother composing when you can improvise like that?." Abrams' writing is not without its moments, but it is unlikely that it will overshadow his recognition as a free jazz pianist. ~ Francois Couture, All Music Guide
Muhal Richard Abrams
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 19, 1930 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Progressive Big Band, Early Creative, Free Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Composer, arranger, and pianist Muhal Richard Abrams is largely a self-taught musician who was deeply influenced by the bop innovations of the late Bud Powell. Abrams has been a beacon in the jazz community as a co-founder (and first president), in 1965, of Chicago's legendary vanguard music institution, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). While Abrams is well-known as a mentor to three generations of younger musicians -- born in 1930 he was a decade older than his closest peer in the AACM -- as a bandleader and professor at the Banff Center, Columbia University, Syracuse University, and the BMI Composers' Workshop, he is not always recognized for his substantial contribution as a player and recording artist. Abrams' first gigs were playing the blues, R&B, and hard bop circuit in Chicago and working as a sideman with everyone from Dexter Gordon and Max Roach to Ruth Brown and Woody Shaw. But Abrams' own recordings reveal his strength as an innovator. His 1967 debut, Levels and Degrees of Light on Chicago's Delmark label, set the course for his own career and that of many of his AACM contemporaries, including Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Leo Smith, and Anthony Braxton. Abrams is also a conduit for the tradition. Though his music is noted for its vanguard edginess, he nonetheless bridges everything in his playing from boogie-woogie to bebop to free improv, as evidenced by Sightsong and Rejoicing With the Light, both on the Black Saint label. Abrams has been a composer that moves through the classical tradition as well. Novi, his first symphony for orchestra and jazz quartet, has been performed at various festivals, and the Kronos Quartet performed his String Quartet, No. 2.
--- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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