muzycy:
Rudresh Mahanthappa: alto saxophone
Mark Dresser: double bass
Gerry Hemingway: drums

Audio Video, 2008-12:
"...Płyta który świetnie uczy pokory recenzentów - mało kto bowiem słyszał o saksofoniście Rudresh'u Mahanthappa'ie. Hindus, wychowany w Chicago, od 10 lat mieszka i tworzy w Nowym Jorku. W Polsce znany głównie z kwartetowych nagrań dla Pi Rechordings. Tutaj prezentuje swoje nowe, gwiazdorskie trio - basisty Maraka Dressera i perkusisty Gerry Hemingwaya miłośnikom jazzu nie trzeba bowiem przedstawiać. Muzyka zawarta na płycie niekiedy tylko odwołuje się do tradycji indyjskich przodków saksofonisty (tylko dwie kompozycje wyszły spod jego pióra). Ale polirytmiczność i długie frazy jakimi operują muzycy w tym nagraniu to także owoc hinduskiej (ragowej) muzyki. Znakomity album..."

Editor's info:
Members of the much remembered classic quartet of Anthony Braxton and bandleaders in their own right, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway are the first names we consider when asked to mention the best improvisers on their respective instruments, the double bass and the drum kit. Extraordinarily gifted musicians, innovators of defining and expanding the meaning of contemporary jazz, and being of wholly creative minds, Dresser and Hemingway are always capable of surprising us. On "The Beautiful Enabler" these two veterans of creative music join forces with the younger, but equally notable, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. His versatility and virtuosity combined with the depths of his multicultural roots (he was born in Italy to South Indian parents, raised in Colorado, educated in Boston and Chicago, now living in New York), justify his fame as a "rising star". This CD is a fine example of empathy and group interaction, something only possible when the musicians involved are selflessly concerned with the musical results of the ensemble and not their own individual performances. While this is always considered to be the ultimate goal of jazz (which at its core defines itself as a collective music), it is generally not easily accomplis.......
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