Sounds (Rob Brown album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Sounds
| type = studio
| artist = Rob Brown
| cover = Sounds_Rob_Brown_cover.jpeg|border=yes
| alt =
| released = 2007
| recorded = November 23, 2006
| venue =
| studio = Firehouse 12, New Haven
| genre = Jazz
| length = 57:39
| label = Clean Feed
| producer = Rob Brown
| chronology = Rob Brown
| prev_title = We Are Not Obstinate Islands
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Right Hemisphere
| next_year = 2008
}}
Sounds is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 2006 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label. Instead of the conventional sax-bass-drums trio, it features an alternative combination with Brown on alto sax, Daniel Levin on cello and Japanese Satoshi Takeishi on a percussion set completed with taiko drums.[http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=208 Sounds] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029002228/http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=208 |date=2014-10-29 }} at Clean Feed
The title track is a three-part suite composed for a multimedia performance that includes dance and visual art. It was debuted at the 2005 Vision Festival with the Nancy Zendora Dance Company and video art by Jo Wood-Brown.Original Liner Notes by Rob Brown
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
}}
The All About Jazz review by Sean Patrick Fitzell notes that "The textural range of the instrumentation, particularly the exotic percussion and the music's spaciousness of form allows for non-idiomatic exploration that is not strictly free improvisation."Fitzell, Sean Patrick. [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/sounds-rob-brown-clean-feed-records-review-by-sean-patrick-fitzell.php Sounds review] at All About Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "A logical move to employ Levin, given how much Brown seems to relish a singing bass tone and long, legato lines... Things as 'Stutter Step' underline how much of Brown's language still comes from the '60s avant-garde, but there is considerable more going on here."{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2= Brian Morton|author2-link= Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0141034017|pages = 186–187}}
Track listing
:All compositions by Rob Brown except as indicated
- "Sounds part I Archaeology" – 12:30
- "Sounds part II Antics" – 6:27
- "Sounds part III Astir" – 10:34
- "Sutter Step" – 4:25
- "Tibetan Folk Song" (Traditional) – 8:47
- "Sinew" – 7:33
- "Moment of Pause" – 7:23
Personnel
- Rob Brown – alto sax
- Daniel Levin - cello
- Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
References
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