Abstract Rhythm in Time DigitalART With eremite records New World Pygmies by Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker

Moondoc pulls out all the stops on this album; it's the most complete documentation of his instrumental prowess on record. From the sustained melodic invention of the title track, to the sound-color-texture manipulations of "Huey Sees a Rainbow" to the gut-wrenching interpretation of "Another Angel Goes Home," Parker's tribute to the late Denis Charles, Moondoc is at the top of his game. Listening to him on the title track as he carefully picks his notes, threading his way in crazy zigzag lines that avoid cliche at every turn, I thought of Thelonious Monk - not his style but his spirit. The proud insistence on the idiosyncratic, the way he favors deliberate rough edges over polish and "technique," the unsentimental rigor of his ballads, and the sheer emotional honesty of his playing - these are Moondoc's virtues just as surely as they were Monk's and they make Moondoc's music unlike anyone else's working in the free-jazz idiom. Oh, you can hear echoes of Jimmy Lyons' merciless intellect, Ornette Coleman's vulnerability, and Jackie McLean's sharp intonation and economy. But they are filtered through Moondoc's own experience, his own heart and mind. And when history fuses with experience in the creative act, it's only the individual voice you hear in the heat of the moment that counts. What you hear is pure Moondoc. Writers and critics... more credits released October 18, 2018 Moondoc: alto saxophone Parker: bass Moondoc compositions Moon-Jem / Ascap Parker compositions Centering Music / BMI 25 July 1998, Fire In The Valley Festival, Bezanson Recital Hall, UMASS Amherst producer: Michael Ehlers engineer: Alen Hadzi-Stefanov photography: Michael Wilderman license

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