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NICOLE MITCHELL’S BLACK EARTH ENSEMBLE
Ontario 2005 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the 12th Guelph Jazz Festival, St George’s Church, Mitchell Hall, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; September 9, 2005. Very good audience recording.
Anthony Braxton had once described Nicole Mitchell as “the greatest flute player I have ever heard, bar none.”
Composer, flutist, and AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Music) Vice-President Nicole Mitchell leads this large ensemble, featuring some of the most exciting soloists from the new generation of Chicago jazz, through her eclectic, rhythmically exciting pieces. Her writing deftly integrates thumping percussion, Latin grooves, subtle string arrangements, tight ensemble passages, collective improvisation, and much more. As a soloist, Mitchell extends the range of her instrument by vocalizing in a manner reminiscent of the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Underlying it all, her music, captured on Afrika Rising (Dreamtime), is invested with a spiritual conviction through which all of its sources - “avant garde,” popular or vernacular - are synthesized as means of musical expression. In the spirit of the great bands throughout the history of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Nicole Mitchell & Black Earth Ensemble look beyond the dogmatic definition of musical style and convention in search of a more direct way by which to communicate with their audiences. - Programme Notes
Thanks to the person who shared this show on the net in 2005.
Picture by Brad Walseth, posted at criticalimprov.com - Thanks!
Click here for a 2008 interview with Nicole Mitchell.
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Track 01. Cause And Effect 14:21 (24.1MB)
Track 02. Untitled/Jam (?) 2:24 (4.0MB)
Track 03. Episodes Of An Obscure Life 9:59 (16.8MB)
Track 04. Improvisation 8:45 (14.7MB)
Track 05. Wondrous Birth 13:21 (22.4MB)
Track 06. Take Refuge 11:12 (18.8MB)
Track 07. Navigator 4:14 (7.1MB)
65 mins
Lineup:
Nicole Mitchell - flute
David Boykin - reeds
Jeff Parker - guitar
Chad Taylor - drums
Josh Abrams - bass
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