Trumpeter Rob Mazurek dedicates these pieces to pianist Angelica Sanchez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and drummer Chad Taylor in a vibrant improvisation recorded in France, drawing on Mazurek's watercolor and ink creations as inspiration; the quartet's interplay channels visual art into melodic textures, freely merging influence and spontaneity through rich interaction.
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Rob Mazurek-trumpet, piccolo trumpet, bells, electronics
Angelica Sanchez-piano
Tomeka Reid-cello
Chad Taylor-drums
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UPC: 3760131271386
Label: RogueArt
Catalog ID: ROG-0138
Squidco Product Code: 35266
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: France
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded by Maikol Seminatore on January 31, 2022 at Studio Sextan - La Fonderie, Malakoff, France.
"Quartet members inspired by color systems, Rob Mazurek's creations, dedicated to these four artists, watercolor and ink pages, four each, offered to Tomeka Reid, Angelica Sanchez, and Chad Taylor, to interpret freely. A foundation laid for these improvisations in the foursome's forays into Mazurek's music with the larger ensemble and subsets of that group that are still larger than four. Here something becomes distilled. Interaction is direct. Don't bother looking for the artist in the sounds. Inspiration is oblique, transmitting from oeuvre to groove, from eye to axe, from shadow to action. It's in Mazurek's backpack, a range of sparking influences, a ball of snakes writhing together, a quartet of cello, drum kit, piano, and trumpet, reading pages written in hue, written in memory, in spirit, in care of, in honor of.
Ways to approach the resounding love, the cosmos, modernism's crooked arrow - Nevelson's black or white towers of wood, the fleeting ephemerality of Tuttle's wall works. Ideas bounced off of a mirror at an angle pointed at a place in the future, the works appearing again as a distant glimmer, their results resultant, resilient, resounding. Something is starting. Something is building. Something is happening. Two more stars in the constellation; two more artists to interpolate: Ellsworth Kelly and Nuno Ramos. Sides of the same coin, two color specialists, one with hard lines, arcs, and truncation, one reveling in the organic. Two more huge lives packed into Mazurek's rucksack. The orientations to Brazil and the States persist, as in domestic life, the magnet of material, of texture, linearity; the play of clarity and blur. The music here has this set of controls - a toggle between the pleasures of melodicism, the space of statement, and a kind of painterly gesture that confuses pink for green. In a good way."-John Corbett
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Rob Mazurek "Rob Mazurek is an American electro-acoustic composer, cornetist, improviser and visual artist living in Chicago, Illinois. As a composer, Rob Mazurek has written over 300 original compositions over the past 30 years, and has released 55 recordings on various labels. He currently leads a number of ensembles, including Exploding Star Orchestra, Pharoah and the Underground (featuring Pharoah Sanders), Chicago Underground, Pulsar Quartet, São Paulo Underground, Skull Sessions, Sound Is Quintet, Starlicker, Mandarin Movie and Throne of the House of Good and Evil, each of which possesses its own distinct musical personality. He has collaborated with a wide variety of artists, such as Bill Dixon, Pharoah Sanders, Mike Ladd, Roscoe Mitchell, Yusef Lateef, Fred Anderson, Naná Vasconcelos, Mamelo Sound System, Kassin and Marcelo Camelo and others. Additionally, Rob Mazurek works as a visual artist (incorporating sound, painting and video) with numerous international performances, exhibitions and artist residencies." ^ Hide Bio for Rob Mazurek • Show Bio for Angelica Sanchez "Pianist/Composer/Educator Angelica Sanchez moved to New York from Arizona in 1994. Since moving to the East Coast Sanchez has played with such players as: Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Richard Davis, Chad Taylor, Chris Lightcap, Rob Mazurek, Vincent Chancey, Susie Ibarra, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, Mark Dresser, Ben Monder and many more. Sanchez leads many groups including her own quintet featuring Marc Ducret, Tony Malaby, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey. Her music has been recognized in international publications like, " Jazz Times Magazine", The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and many more. She was also the 2008 recipient of the French/American Chamber Music America grant and the 2011 Rockefellers Brothers Pocantico artist residency. Her CD "Life Between" was chosen as one of years best recording 2009 in "The New York City Jazz Record (formerly AllAboutJazz-New York)." Her debut solo CD "A Little House" was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition in May 2011. Her latest CD "Wires & Moss" featuring her Quintet was chosen as one of best Releases of 2012 in "The New York City Jazz Record (formerly AllAboutJazz-New York)." Her Duo CD "Twine Forest" with Wadada Leo Smith received Honorable Mention as a best release in 2013 in "The New York City Jazz Record." Angelica has a Master's in Arranging from William Paterson University." ^ Hide Bio for Angelica Sanchez • Show Bio for Tomeka Reid "Chicago based cellist, composer and educator, Tomeka Reid has been described as "a remarkably versatile player," (Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune). Equally adept in classical and jazz contexts, Ms. Reid predominantly finds herself in experimental and improvisatory settings and composes for a wide range of instrumentation, from big band to chamber ensemble. Ms. Reid's music combines her love for groove along with freer concepts. Ms. Reid is an integral part of Dee Alexander's Evolution Ensemble, Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble/Strings, Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) Great Black Music Ensemble, and co-leads the internationally recognized string trio, Hear in Now with performances in Poznan, Poland; Paris, France; Rome, Venice, Milan, Italy; Soazza, Switzerland; and in the US: Chicago, New York and Vermont. In addition to the aforementioned ensembles, Ms. Reid performs with many of today's forward thinking musicians in the world of jazz and creative music including Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Jeb Bishop, Myra Melford, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mary Halvorson, Denis Fournier, Edward Wilkerson and Harrison Bankhead. Ms. Reid also leads her own trio featuring guitarist Matt Schneider and bassist Josh Abrams, for which she composes. Ms. Reid can be heard on numerous studio recordings. As an educator, Ms. Reid has led string improvisation workshops in Italy and the US. Most recently she co-directed the 2012 Vancouver Jazz Festival’s High School Jazz Intensive. For seven years, Ms. Reid co-directed the string program at the University of Chicago’s Laboratory School for students grade 5 thru 12. Ms. Reid is also an ABD doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign. As a composer, Ms. Reid has been commissioned by the AACM, the Chicago Jazz Festival and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and has had several opportunities to showcase her work abroad at festivals such as Umbria Jazz, An Insolent Noise and Vignola Jazz. She has been nominated and awarded residencies for composition with the Ragdale Foundation and the 2nd Annual Make Jazz Fellowship hosted by the 18th Street Arts Organization. Ms. Reid was selected as a 2012 participant in the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute held at the University of California: Los Angeles." ^ Hide Bio for Tomeka Reid • Show Bio for Chad Taylor "Chad Taylor (b. 1973) is a composer, educator, percussionist and scholar who is a co-founder of the Chicago Underground ensembles. Originally from Tempe, AZ, Chad grew up in Chicago where he started performing professionally at the age of 16. Chad has performed with Fred Anderson, Derek Bailey, Cooper-Moore, Pharoah Sanders, Marc Ribot, Peter Brotzmann, Malachi Favors and many others. Chad leads his own band Circle down which debut recording was given a 5 star review by All music: "What is remarkable is that there is no wasted motion, no histrionics or grandstanding, as pure emotion is translated to superlative music making on this most highly recommended recording, one for the ages." Allmusic.com Chad has a BFA from the New School in Jazz Performance and a MFA in Jazz Research and History from Rutgers University." ^ Hide Bio for Chad Taylor
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Track Listing:
1. Four Page Color System for Louise Nevelson 8:00
2. Four Page Color System for Frank Bowling 4:55
3. Four Page Color System for Lygia Pape 4:03
4. Four Page Color System for Richard Tuttle 9:08
5. Nineteen Colors on a Three-Sided Box for Nuno Ramos 7:51
6. Three Colors on a Four-Sided Box for Ellsworth Kelly 8:14
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