Roscoe Mitchell Montreal Toronto

our original improvisations, taken from legendary AACM composer, improviser and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's "Conversations" album transcribed and performed by a twenty piece Bay Area orchestra, along with two orchestral improvisations and two duets with Roscoe Mitchell and flutist Wilfredo Terrazas.

Recorded live in Burghausen, Germany in 2007, Far Side features journeyman avant-garde saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and his ensemble the Note Factory performing in a concert. Joining Mitchell here are trumpeter Corey Wilkes, pianists Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer, bassists Jaribu Shahid and Harrison Bankhead, and drummers Tani Tabbal and Vincent Davis. Beginning with the epic three-part 30-minute suite "Far Side/Cards/Far Side," the concert is an atmospheric and cinematic mix of Mitchell's longstanding musical touchstones including free jazz, European classical music, and modern creative group improvisation. Tracks such as the fragmented and atonal "Quintet 2007 A for Eight" and the similarly inclined "Trio Four for Eight" have the feel of composed classical music while evincing a more freely improvised aesthetic. This is often achieved by juxtaposing bowed cello and bass parts against improvised piano and sections where each musician seems to interject a melodic idea into an overall harmonic theme. There are moments of layered percussion, expansive atonal soundscapes, and fiery and combative moments between Mitchell and Wilkes as well as windy, drawn-out passages that tilt upon silence. If you're a hardcore Mitchell aficionado and/or fan of ECM's cerebral jazz catalog, Far Side would be a stellar addition to your library.

This meeting took place at ScienSonic Laboratories in Teaneck, NJ on April 21, 2015 (the day after the Heliosonic Toneways session). This recording is significant in that it presents the first music Roscoe Mitchell ever played with either Marshall Allen or Milford Graves. It also represents a bit of a departure for me personally, as Milford Graves is so far the only artist to appear on ScienSonic with whom I have not previously performed as a sideman. It has long been a dream to play music with Professor Graves, so I took the plunge or perhaps "lift-off" would be a better term. As the professor said to me after the date, "Man, at one point you went so far out there, we weren't sure if you were coming back!" Well, it took 4 ½ years, but at least I made it back in time to finally mix and present this music. Everything was recorded in one open room with no separation or barriers of any kind, as suggested by Mr. Graves, and is presented here in the order it was played.

Roscoe Mitchell With Ostravaska Banda Performing Distant Radio Transmission Also Nonaah Trio, And 8.8.88 ''Cutouts For Woodwind Quintet'' is only available on the CD version of this recording.

This December 1977 recording features two of the most prominent AACM musicians, Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton. Mitchell's composition 'run the gamut, beginning with the darkly gorgeous opener that features Braxton's contrabass clarinet nestling evocatively beneath the composer's earthy flute, Mitchell's other pieces investigate the sparer, more abstract realm, as the duo's wide variety of reeds populate the sonic environment with scattered moans, squeaks and pops. Overall, this is a fine meeting between two of the most forward-looking thinkers and players in the music. Recommended. ' - Brian Olewnick, Allmusic

Roscoe Mitchell - Quartet (1975) {Sackville SKCD2-2009 rel 2002}
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© 1975, 2002 Sackville | SKCD2-2009
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Improvisation / Modern Creative / Progressive Jazz / Saxophone

Recorded in concert at A Space, Toronto, Canada, on the 4th & 5th of October 1975. (All titles recorded October 4th except track #1.) This CD is part of the Sackville Collection Series "The Creative Improvised Music Classics (1974-1980)", being recordings for the Sackville label made by Bill Smith in Toronto between 1974 and 1980 of "a newly emerging jazz avant-garde." "The music in the Sackville Collection is being released for the first time on CD in editions of 1000."

Roscoe Mitchell - The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note (2015) {9CD SET CAM Jazz BXS1036 rec 1977-1995}
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© 1977-95, 2015 CAM Jazz / Black Saint / Soul Note | BXS 1035
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Progressive Jazz / Saxophone

THE COMPLETE REMASTERED RECORDINGS ON BLACK SAINT & SOUL NOTE is a monographic box-set collection aimed at recounting the most beautiful chapters that revolutionised the history of jazz. A deep philological work, beginning with the original recordings on original master tapes, patiently integrally remastered paying strict attention to sound quality.

Roscoe Mitchell Sextet - Sound (1966) {Delmark DE-4408 rel 2018}
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© 1966, 2018 Delmark Records | DE-4408
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz / Saxophone / Clarinet

Fifty years after Sound was first released on Delmark Records (Delmark 408), not only has music changed, our ear has changed. Music is not a universal language, as well intended but poorly informed authors like to say. The musical ear is a historical and social construct that belongs to a specific society and a specific time. A 21st century listener would be more amazed than surprised or shocked by this music; amazed by its maturity, its balance, and its sense of structure. Instead of the cataract of adjectives and superlatives this music provoked in its initial reviews, one now can justly appreciate how much of its language has become integrated into the current “historical ear”. Re-issued from the original Stu Black analog mix for the first time!

Roscoe Mitchell - Composition / Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (2007) {ECM 1872}
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© 2007 ECM Records | ECM 1872
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Progressive Jazz / Saxophone

Roscoe Mitchell and Evan Parker handpicked the personnel of this ‘Transatlantic Art Ensemble’, a fascinating and, indeed, historic coming together of players from the US and UK, amongst them members of Mitchell’s Note Factory group and Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. Here they premiere new pieces by Roscoe, recorded live in concert at Munich’s Muffathalle. An epic journey through music of many changing – and surprising - moods, from lyrical episodes to plateaux of intensity.