0805558287923

Caught In The Rhythm

Benjamin Boone

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Format: CD

Cat No: ORIGIN82879

Release Date:  09 August 2024

Label:  Origin Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0805558287923

Genres:  Jazz  

  • Description

    For a decade now, saxophonist, composer, and Fulbright scholar Benjamin Boone has artfully merged the works of vital, contemporary poets with the in-the-moment creations of astute, innovative jazz musicians, first through his two critically acclaimed recordings with U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine, and most recently with 2020's The Poets Are Gathering, providing a striking platform for the spoken word. The dance of imagery and rumination set in motion by Patrick Sylvain's "Caught in the Rhythm" supplies a running theme for this exploding kaleidoscope of diverse voices, with Ambrose Akinmusire, Greg Osby, Kenny Werner and Ben Monder being a few of the interacting musical voices, offering an aural front page of dispatches, reveries, declamations, and narratives from past and present. Leave it to music, melding with shadow and light, to make the case for poetry. That's what this album--and its varied supplications to the muse--are for.

    "...important poetic works in the context of sound and emotive playing. There is no line of demarcation, only artistic unity afloat in a solution of truth." - All About Jazz

    "...a superb arsenal of poets who unravel their works with razor-sharp conviction and clarity... wondrous... like engrossing short films, all of which demand concentrated engagement." - DownBeat

    Artists

    Benjamin Boone - Saxophone
    Ben Monder - Guitar
    Greg Osby - Alto Saxophone

    Ari Hoenig - Drums
    Ambrose Akinmusire - Trumpet
    T. R. Hummer - Spoken word
    Patrick Sylvain - Spoken word
    Kenny Werner - Piano
    Kimiko Hahn - Spoken word
    Tyehimba Jess - Spoken word
    Edward Hirsch - Spoken word

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Mississippi 1955 Confessional
      • 2. HoodWitches [Redux]
      • 3. Caught in the Rhythm
      • 4. Art Pepper
      • 5. We Bring the Soul to It
      • 6. Poem 836 / The Diviner
      • 7. The Case Against Poetry
      • 8. Anger Management
      • 9. ASMR Sleepcast: The Night After Being Released from the Rural County Jail
      • 10. Olivia Suggests All the Women in Class Imagine Male Sexuality
      • 11. Mercy
      • 12. Dawg, What the Fuck Ima Do With a $20?
      • 13. You'll Be Sorry