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| 1. | Grand Unification
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| 2. | Transcriptions
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| 3. | Gathering
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| 4. | Decisive Moments
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| 5. | Memory
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| 6. | Know Your Place
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| 7. | Intuitive Transformations
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| 8. | Transcendence
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Jazz
Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, New York on October 11, 1997
Milford Graves - percussion (solo), producer
Along with Sunny Murray, Milford Graves is one of the fathers of the '60s "free" school of jazz drumming. Murray and Graves dispensed with the notion of the drummer as "timekeeper" or "accompanist." For the first time, a drummer was on equal stature with a pianist or horn player and was free to improvise along with the instrumentalists.
1997's GRAND UNIFICATION is a solo percussion tour-de-force. Graves utilizes a wide range of drums and percussion, playing freely but dynamically and with a sense of urgent, driving inner logic. His cross-rhythms will make you dizzy with delight. In addition, Graves often vocalizes "behind" the storms and flurries he lays down. The beautifully recorded GRAND UNIFICATION makes most jazz and rock drummers sound like metronomes.
* Allan Tucker - Mastering
* Ikue Mori - Artwork
* Jim Anderson - Engineer
* John Zorn - Executive Producer
* Kazunori Sugiyama - Associate Producer
Milford Graves was one of the greatest free jazz percussionists of the '60s, mastering the traps, conga, and tabla to create a multiethnic firestorm of rhythm. He has essentially not recorded for years, making sporadic appearances on the albums of other jazz artists while making almost no recordings of his own. The very fact that he has a new album on the Tzadik label is, therefore, exciting. Fans of Graves from the '60s will be pleased to note that this is a collection of work that picks up right where he left off. Others may find it a little bit of a relic in its frenzied and jazz stylings. Regardless, the record is a tight, technical masterpiece played with passion. Combining a variety of African, Asian, and Western drums with rhythmic chanting, Graves provides all of the instrumentation on the album and creates something rare: unaccompanied jazz percussion that shows variety and consistent energy throughout a nearly hour-long album.
---Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide |
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