Marco Colonna : clarinet, bass clarinet, sopranino sax
Alexander Hawkins : piano
All music by E.A.Dolphy except n.9 by Marco Colonna
Recorded live in Rome, February 2020
Mastered by Tommaso Marletta
Liner Notes: Roberto Ottaviano trans. by Alexander Hawkins

"Marco Colonna i Alexander Hawkins [...] Należą do tej grupy wolnych improwizatorów, którzy mają za sobą poważne przygotowanie; i którego podejście do współdziałania, solowania i inwencji kontrapunktowej zasadniczo porusza się wzdłuż tych samych osi kartezjańskich, co europejski rygor akademicki. To muzycy dalecy od naiwności uhistorycznionego radykalizmu już w latach siedemdziesiątych, tak samo jak odlegli są od pewnego, równie historycznego, afroamerykańskiego leksykonu. Colonna i Hawkins w pełni reprezentują nową erę 'świadomych badań'." Roberto Ottaviano
Dodajmy, że obiektami badań na prezentowanej płycie jest twórczość Anthony Braxtona i Erica Dolphy'ego.



Over time, jazz has developed the habit of attributing curious nicknames to its protagonists, resulting in a colorful bestiary of descriptors.

For a start, it's a world teeming with ‘cats’. We also find the Bear, Fox, Hawk, Rabbit, Stork, Frog, and perhaps by way of climax: Bird.

For our subject, however, the discourse changes, and we have to deal with fantastical zoology: that of Borges, of Kafka's Odradek, Cortázar's Adberkukus, or Tommaso Landolfi's Vipistrello.

We have to do this because ERIC ALLAN DOLPHY Jr., born in Los Angeles in 1928 and died in 1964 in Berlin, is one of the most unclassifiable musicians to have navigated the skies of modern jazz. On bass clarinet, he staked out an unprecedentedly virtuosic territory within the Afro-American improvisational practice; he liberated the flute into spaces similarly exotic to those contemporary ‘densities’ of Edgar Varese or Gazzelloni (as a result of the latter’s attendance at Darmstadt); and finally, on alto sax, although it was the instrument on which he was perhaps most rooted in the (Parkerian) tradition, he transgressed the bop vernacular with his intervallic and rhythmic logic. His instruments represent the plumage, the claws, beak and fan.......
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