Sound Hierarchy
{{Infobox album
| name = Sound Hierarchy
| type = studio
| artist = Ivo Perelman
| cover = Sound_hierarchy_cover.jpeg
| alt =
| released = 1997
| recorded = October 1996
| venue =
| studio = Systems Two, Brooklyn
| genre = Jazz
| length = 56:37
| label = Music & Arts
| producer = Ivo Perelman
| chronology = Ivo Perelman
| prev_title = En Adir
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Strings
| next_year = 1997
}}
Sound Hierarchy is an album by the Brazilian jazz saxophonist Ivo Perelman, recorded in 1996 and released on the Music & Arts label. He leads a quartet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, drummer Gerry Hemingway and bassist William Parker.
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
}}
In his review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson states: "Short of Charles Gayle, you won't find any 1990s avant-garde jazz that is more incendiary, ferocious and violent than Sound Hierarchy."{{allMusic|last=Henderson|first=Alex|class=album|id=mw0000606110|title=Ivo Perelman – Sound Hierarchy: Review|accessdate=October 6, 2015}}
The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "Crispell is too strong a personality to settle for the kind of subsidiary role that Perelman needs, and Hemingway's rhythms are too bracingly inventive - they offer Perelman a distraction rather than fed lines."{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD|edition = 6th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2002|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0-14-051521-6|pages = 1176}}
Track listing
:All titles are collective works except as indicated
- "Frozen Tears" - 18:54
- "Sound Hierarchy" - 7:29
- "Datchki Dandara" (Ivo Perelman) - 12:20
- "Fragments" - 17:33
Personnel
- Ivo Perelman - tenor sax, mouthpiece on 2
- Marilyn Crispell - piano
- Gerry Hemingway - drums, voice on 2
- William Parker - bass
References
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