Saxophonist Ivo Perelman explores his musical relationship with two of the members of his quartet, pianist Matt Shipp and drummer Gerald Cleaver, in this improvised album that is the second part of a project that began with "Family Ties".
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Ivo Perelman-tenor saxophone
Matt Shipp-piano
Gerald Cleaver-drums
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UPC: 5024792064328
Label: Leo Records
Catalog ID: LEOR643.2
Squidco Product Code: 16813
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: UK
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded by Jim Clouse at Park West studios, Brooklyn, NY in December 2011.
""The Foreign Legion" provides the second chapter of a project launched earlier in 2012, with the release of "Family Ties" (CD LR 630) - that album featured bassist Joe Morris and drummer Gerald Cleaver. By recording with Matt Shipp and Gerald Cleaver, Ivo Perelman continues to explore his relationship with each member of his quartet in a slightly different setting. It transpires that it becomes a different band each time one player would drop out for a while and it opens new possibilities for Ivo Perelman to reach new heights."-Leo Records
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• Show Bio for Ivo Perelman "Born in 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil, Perelman was a classical guitar prodigy who tried his hand at many other instruments - including cello, clarinet, and trombone - before gravitating to the tenor saxophone. His initial heroes were the cool jazz saxophonists Stan Getz and Paul Desmond. But although these artists' romantic bent still shapes Perelman's voluptuous improvisations, it would be hard to find their direct influence in the fiery, galvanic, iconoclastic solos that have become his trademark. Moving to Boston in 1981, to attend Berklee College of Music, Perelman continued to focus on mainstream masters of the tenor sax, to the exclusion of such pioneering avant-gardists as Albert Ayler, Peter Brötzmann, and John Coltrane (all of whom would later be cited as precedents for Perelman's own work). He left Berklee after a year or so and moved to Los Angeles, where he studied with vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake, at whose monthly jam sessions Perelman discovered his penchant for post-structure improvisation: "I would go berserk, just playing my own thing," he has stated. Emboldened by this approach, Perelman began to research the free-jazz saxists who had come before him. In the early 90s he moved to New York, a far more inviting environment for free-jazz experimentation, where he lives to this day. His discography comprises more than 50 recordings, with a dozen of them appearing since 2010, when he entered a remarkable period of artistic growth - and "intense creative frenzy," in his words. Many of these trace his rewarding long-term relationships with such other new-jazz visionaries as pianist Matthew Shipp, bassists William Parker, guitarist Joe Morris, and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Critics have lauded Perelman's no-holds-barred saxophone style, calling him "one of the great colorists of the tenor sax" (Ed Hazell in the Boston Globe); "tremendously lyrical" (Gary Giddins); and "a leather-lunged monster with an expressive rasp, who can rage and spit in violence, yet still leave you feeling heartbroken" (The Wire). Since 2011, he has undertaken an immersive study in the natural trumpet, an instrument popular in the 17th century, before the invention of the valve system used in modern brass instruments; his goal is to achieve even greater control of the tenor saxophone's altissimo range (of which he is already the world's most accomplished practitioner). Perelman is also a prolific and noted visual artist, whose paintings and sketches have been displayed in numerous exhibitions while earning a place in collections around the world." ^ Hide Bio for Ivo Perelman • Show Bio for Gerald Cleaver "Gerald Cleaver (born May 4, 1963) is an African-American jazz drummer from Detroit, Michigan. Cleaver's father is drummer John Cleaver Jr., originally from Springfield, Ohio, and his mother was from Greenwood, Mississippi. Gerald had six older siblings. Cleaver joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995. He has performed or recorded with Joe Morris, Mat Maneri, Roscoe Mitchell, Miroslav Vitous, Michael Formanek, Tomasz Sta ko, Franck Amsallem and others. Under the name Veil of Names, Cleaver released an album called Adjust on the Fresh Sounds New Talent label in 2001. It featured Maneri, Ben Monder, Andrew Bishop, Craig Taborn and Reid Anderson and was a Best Debut Recording Nominee by the Jazz Journalists Association. Cleaver currently leads the groups Uncle June, Black Host, Violet Hour and NiMbNl as well as working as a sideman with many different artists." ^ Hide Bio for Gerald Cleaver
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Track Listing:
1. Mute Singing, Mute Dancing 5:38
2. An Angel's Disquiet 13:55
3. Paul Klee 8:00
4. Sketch Of An Wardrobe 11:14
5. An Abstract Door 7:36
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