Cat No:
ORIGIN82876
Release Date: 23 August 2024
Label: Origin Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805558287626
Genres: Jazz
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Description
Composer Anthony Branker's ninth album for Origin Records is a re-issue of his debut recording for Sons of Sound Records in 2006. This was Branker's first recording as a composer/bandleader writing specifically for his ensemble, Ascent, the first of his three collectives that would establish him as an important emerging writer and "a force to be reckoned with in the world of modern post-bop jazz." Spirit Songs is a bold, spacious recording that showcases Branker's earlier compositions, rooted in modal harmonies, displaying a unique sense of lyricism and full of highly rhythmic grooves, based in the world of jazz but blended with culturally diverse musical styles. At the center of the recording is the inspired, fiery and always surprising drumming of the late, great Ralph Peterson, Jr., whom, along with trombonist Clifford Adams, Jr., this reissue is dedicated in the memory of. With saxophonists Antonio Hart and Ralph Bowen, pianist Jonny King, and bassist John Benitez, Spirit Songs marked an auspicious debut for this formidable composer whose "place in Jazz has been consistently building unique architectures that speak to the cultural reparation of allowing this art form to thrive as protest music."
"...Anthony Branker's compositions are luxuriously packaged in both classical and jazz forms, blending and intermingling to the point of no longer knowing what planet we are on, except for that of an exceptional composer... Musical beauty in the service of thought, or perhaps the reverse..." -- Paris-Move
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Tracklisting
- 1. Chant for Peace Eternal
- 2. Parris in April
- 3. Spirit Song
- 4. Sketches of Selim
- 5. Imani (Faith)
- 6. In God's Hands
- 7. Mentor
- 8. J.C.'s Passion
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Xose Miguelez
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The Natural Order Of Things
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Jared Hall
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Meridian Odyssey
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More Sounds Of A Dry Martini
Brent Jensen
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Pennselmann Hits Vol. 2765
Tuohi Klang
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Deeds, Not Words
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Gil Evans
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Henry Mancini
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Ray Barretto
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