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Roy Campbell: trumpet, flugelhorn, recorder, arghul
Billy Bang: violin
Bryan Carrott: vibes
Hilliard Greene: bass
Zen Matsuura: drums

Audio Video, 2008-11
'...Znakomite płyty wydane w roku ubiegłym wciąż do nas docierają. Oto jedna z nich: Roy Campbell w nietypowym składzie szuka natchnienia w starożytnym Egipcie. Muzyka zarejestrowana podczas 12-tej edycji Vision Festival nie ma jednak nic wspólnego z brzmieniami staroegipskimi (nie wiemy zresztą nawet jak one brzmiały), chociaż delikatne nuty orientu pobrzmiewają tutaj zwłaszcza z grze skrzypka Billy Banga. Brzmienie zespołu jest unikatowe dzięki obecności Bryana Carrotta grającego na vibraharp. Muzyka to taka pastelowa i spokojna awangarda, unikająca sonorystyki czy szaleństwa, bardziej w duchu tego, co gra Dennis Gonzalez. Piękna płyta, do której sam bardzo często powracam...'

Editor's info:
Akhenaten Suite is one of master Roy Campbell's crowning achievements as a player-composer-arranger, and became his final album statement as a leader. This great work finds every member of the astonishing ensemble in peak, highly inspired form. Essential.

Roy Campbell was a jazz trumpeter and composer of the first order, one who encompassed the tradition even as he pushed the music forward. He was a founding member of the luminous collective Other Dimensions In Music, Marc Ribot’s Spiritual Unity project, and too many more to name here. He had long been a sonic frontiersman, embracing the universality of a sound continuum in which the Harlem-bound A Train and the majestic River Nile are moonlit reflections of each other. Here Campbell turns his hand to an extended work inspired by Amenhotep IV, Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. Akhenaten Suite, specially commissioned for and recorded live at the 2007 Vision Festival, is a splendid passage to a fabled dimension. It’s realized by musicians – including Billy Bang on violin – who had an intimate affiliation with Campbell’s vibrant brass styllings and wonderfully open, expansive compositions.

"A thoroughly refreshing al.......
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