Schooled in Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in the 1960s, trombonist and composer George Lewis has recorded amply in avant-garde jazz contexts. But he's an exciting electronic music specialist, having developed Voyager, his own interactive improvising program. His magnum opus, though, is this CD. Lewis pushes his trombone to the fore in round exclamations and aching jabs into extended tonalities. The pieces here are each narrated by, among others, poets Jerome Rothenberg, Bernard Mixon, and Quincy Troupe. Lewis's compositions feed off avant jazz's open-ended languages but also delve into spacious instrumental spreads that gather their sometimes stark strength from Ruth Neville's piano, Mary Oliver's viola, and Douglas Ewart's expert clarinets and shakuhachi. --Andrew Bartlett
Changing With the Times,George Lewis,New World Records,Avant-Garde,Jazz,Jazz Traditional,Pop
Jazz Music:
- Classic Jazz/Everybody's Happy
- Close Encounter
- Concerto De Aranjuez [Import]
- Construction Zone (Originals)
- Cubano Chant
- Day of Perseverance
- Dreamband 1956
- Dreyfus Night in Paris [Live]
- Early Bird [Import]
- Elements of Style
Jazz Music
In An Ellington Mood [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Gay Happenings: Latin Dance Edition [Import]
Jesus Walks, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
International Music Series [Box set]
Jump Up! [Original recording remastered] [Import]
I Blame Dido Ep [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
Frederica von Stade - French Opera Arias
Interpretations V.3 [Import] [Original recording remastered]