Michael Bisio, Karl Berger, Mat Maneri & Whit Dickey
Release Date: 25 March 2022
Label: Tao Forms
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 642623800829
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
This Michael Bisio Quartet is a new kindred-spirit assembly featuring the veteran bassist alongside Mat Maneri (viola), Karl Berger (vibraphone) and Whit Dickey (drums). Their melodiously alluring debut album, 'MBefore', features the four virtuoso improvisers communing on a set of original compositions by Bisio & Berger, plus a free-minded take on the standard "I Fall In Love Too Easily".
From the liner notes by Matthew Shipp: "Michael Bisio is one of the greatest bassists on the planet - but this album isn't about his bass playing. It's about his humanity. Bisio is a thoughtful group leader who has a knack for bringing the right people together and setting them up in such a way that they feel at one with the group dynamic."
'MBefore' is about the ensemble and its collective consciousness - it's about the group aesthetic, with the resulting sound having a transparent quality. With vibes and viola, there's a sonic clarity, even a kind of sweetness. That clarity and transparency allows the contrapuntal quality of the music to be fully revealed - you can hear everyone's lines at once, and the subtle harmonies created by the crossing of those individual lines.
Bisio was a member of Don Cherry's band in Paris, he accompanied Cherry to New York City to record Symphony for Improvisers in 1966. And he stayed, recording his own debut album for ESP later that year. Having worked with Carla Bley, Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, John McLaughlin, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders; he also collaborated with Bill Laswell as musical arranger & conductor, thus contributing to albums by Jeff Buckley, Sly & Robbie, Angélique Kidjo, and more.
Michael Bisio: bass, compositions
Karl Berger: vibraphone, compositions
Mat Maneri: viola
Whit Dickey: drums
Tracklisting
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
Whit Dickey, William Parker & Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp
Fay Victor & Herbie Nichols SUNG
Whit Dickey Trio
Matthew Shipp
Michael Bisio, Karl Berger, Mat Maneri & Whit Dickey
A Bigger MOUTH
Barry Guy
John Zorn
A.M.E.N
Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez
Weird Of Mouth
Paul Dunmall & Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes & Julie Tippetts
