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Courage with Robert Creeley: The Way Out is Via The Door
year: 2002 | cat#: 482-1011 |
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| 1. | Sincerely Y'alls: Everybody's Child / Does it seem mind's all? | | 2. | I Dreamt I Dwelt... | | 3. | Days the Weather Sits... -sample | | 4. | Hockets | | 5. | Hullo Bolinas -sample | | 6. | Bloop in Spirit | | 7. | What's Gone is Gone | | 8. | Have We Told You...? -sample | | 9. | Where Do You Roam? | | 10. | Uncantation -mp3 | | 11. | Despite the Sad Vagaries -sample | | 12. | Signs of Life | | 13. | Incantation | | 14. | Inchworm |
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| Courage is drummer Chris Massey, sax / reed player John Mills and bassist Steve Swallow. The Way Out is Via the Door is a beautifully realized recording of intimate, creative jazz conversations,
placing all three voices as equals and allowing the lines created
to weave together and apart at will, sometimes floating over cushions of sound-wash, and creating spontaneous tension-release statements.
This is the classic grouping of saxophone-bass-drums from another angle, perhaps from inside the mirror looking out, augmented by John Mills' wonderful use of the bass clarinet and by drummer Chris Massey’s statement that the drums are a melodic instrument as well.
And Steve Swallow, one of the featured voices, shows that he is the
master of the melodic bass line.
The addition of the wonderfully sensitive poet Robert Creeley, here, from a series of live
tour performances, only adds to the charm of this recording.
The Way Out is Via the Door was recorded at the Make Believe Ballroom in upstate New York
by Tom Mark, who has recorded numerous sessions for ECM, Concord, Watt, Jack DeJohnette, Carla Bley, Alice Coltrane, Max Roach, and many others. |
Musicians: John Mills (tenor & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, keyboards), Steve Swallow (bass), Chris Massey (drums), Robert Creeley (voice)
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"Robert Creeley is a lyric poet of singular observation." — The Wire
"Music and poetry make uneasy bedfellows at the best of times but on
this effort, from American "creative jazz" trio Courage, the stylised
prose from Beat poet Creeley makes perfect sense... Creeley's cleverly (de)constructed narratives riff on the
universal themes of love, loss and happiness, referencing William
Blake and Samuel Beckett into the bargain. The result is an album of
startling intimacy and one that avoids the po-faced 'Jazz Club'
cul-de-sac.
(4/5)" — Kieran Wyatt, Seven (UK)
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More information... Word Jazz Album of the Week — EPulse Courage — Signal to Noise review Courage with Robert Creeley — Cadence review
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