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- Date Released: September 9, 2001
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Sackville / IODA
An audacious, auspicious debut from a Chicago legend
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Second-wave AACMer George Lewis literally wrote the book on the Chicago organization: 2008's indispensable A Power Stronger Than Itself. Playing with founders like Muhal Richard Abrams and studying at the AACM school (while on leave from Yale) opened him to new possibilities, even as he was making inroads in straight-ahead jazz. He toured with Count Basie and Anthony Braxton in rapid succession. On his well-rounded debut The Solo Trombone Record from 1976 — made before he began documenting his parallel interest in electronics — Lewis intones Billy Strayhorn's noble ballad "Lush Life," reverent as Tommy Dorsey, and tosses off a rapid, riffy one to show off his iron chops and quick mind. But he was thinking like a composer too: on "Toneburst" three overdubbed Lewises play in harmony and counterpoint, blending and stepping away from each other, reconvening for scripted moments that support the improvised superstructure. An audacious, auspicious debut.
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| 01. |  |
Toneburst (Piece For 3 Trombones Simultaneously) |
20:13 |  |
| 02. | |
Phenomenology |
7:50 | |
| 03. | |
Untitled Dream Sequence |
7:16 | |
| 04. | |
Lush Life |
6:06 | |
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