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Elliott Levin & Tyrone Hill 4tet: A Fine Intensity
ByHill’s appropriately titled “Multiphonics Dream” is less velocious and serves as a loping encomium to the extended technique mentioned in the title with Levin, and strangely not Hill, showing off a facility in this department. Levin’s “Theatre on the Double,” balanced on a supple bass figure by Cooper, is episodic and filled with short solo interludes and stirring interplay between the two horns. The sound of Hill’s instrument is particularly well recorded and all the nuances of his fuliginous brass are on full display. “Nicole’s Dance” starts out at a ruminative snail’s pace, but soon breaks into a bluesy march cadence that echoes New Orleans brass band syncopation. Levin hits hard again with swirling multiphonics and lithely overblown punctuation digging into the shuffle-boil groove. On “Undiluted” the players serve things up in a relatively straight-shot, but still slip in plenty of melodic and harmonic subversion under the surface. “Relativity” works well as the denouement for the disc. Though the piece is listed as a solo feature for Levin on the sleeve, it actually incorporates the entire quartet and once again juxtaposes straight-laced sections with more turbulent blowing. Levin and Hill’s associations are long-standing, a source of mutual sustenance for both men. Taking the solid effort they put in on this date as an indication the longevity of their musical partnership seems secure and should continue to create the kind of brilliant music found here.
Tracks:Brisk/ Multiphonics Dream/ Theatre on the Double (ALTAR-ed States)/ Nicole’s Dance/ Undiluted/ Relativity.
Personnel
Elliott Levin
saxophoneElliot Levin- tenor saxophone, curved soprano saxophone; Tyrone Hill- trombone; Howard Cooper- bass; Ed Watkins- drums.
Recorded: March 29 & 30, 1999, Rossie, NY.
Album information
Title: A Fine Intensity | Year Released: 2000 | Record Label: CIMP Records
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