Seriana Promethea

Description

David Murray is a giant of modern jazz. His saxophone fuses all the
great things that black music has produced: Gospel sounds, free
jazz, Afro-Caribbean, blues and soul as well as the beautiful standards
of classic jazz. Murray's colorful tone, unsurpassed intonation,
flair for swing, melancholy tones, and improvisational power and
ingenuity make him one of the most important voices in music today.
The newly formed Brave New World Trio congregates style-setting
jazz greats with bassist Brad Jones and drummer Hamid Drake.
Together they draw from the African-American tradition as well as
from other cultures and with Seriana Promethea they present an
impressive musical statement. "The result shows the intuitive level of
understanding achieved. Having reached in his mid-60s a level of
technical mastery where a musician ?can play every note that he
hears,? Murray saw this pianoless trio as not just a way to keep the
notes flowing, but a catalyst for total freedom: that rare configuration
that allows him to deliver, through the saxophone, "my most free
expression of myself", writes Derek Schilling in the liner notes.