Broken Shadows Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson & Dave King

• 1 Street Woman 02:34
• 2 Body 03:36
• 3 Toy Dance 04:01
• 4 Ecars 03:53
• 5 Civilisation Day 02:07
• 6 Comme il Faut 03:22
• 7 Dogon A.D. 06:58
• 8 C.O.D. 03:04
• 9 Una Muy Bonita 03:54
• 10 Song for Ché 03:07
• 11 Walls-Bridges 02:36
• 12 Broken Shadows 05:13
• Total Runtime 44:25

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Broken Shadows brings together four luminaries of the American jazz scene: Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King. Broken Shadows has very strong connections, intwos. Saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed have been playing together since 1992; Bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King – two thirds of the legendary band The Bad Plus –have been playing together for over 35 years.Named after an Ornette Coleman composition, this all-star project honors the legacy of the music of their idols and mentors Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Julius Hemphill. "Most all of the songs have melodies; infectious and singable.Songs you would want to put in your pocket and take them home.In a time of songs treated as vehicles for improvisation, with this band, the vehicle is the song", writes Branford Marsalis in the liner notes, celebrating the emotional power and impact of BrokenShadows: "Harmonic data does not create emotion; the ability to change color in ones sound does. This is something that Broken Shadows understand, be it explicit or implicit. The twelve tracks range from lamentation, or insouciant swagger, to utter joy, and all the colors in between."

Tim Berne, alto saxophone
Chris Speed, tenor saxophone
Reid Anderson, bass
Dave King, drums

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Broken Shadows
is a quartet of kindred spirits communing over shared loves and common inspirations, radiating not only homage but aspiration – the drive to make music with deep, age-old roots reach into the present moment, very much alive and moving through our air now. Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King – four musicians hailing from the urban northern half of America – have banded together to reinterpret the timeless sounds conjured by great men from the rural South and heartland of the country: Ornette Coleman, Julius Hemphill, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden. These iconic figures created an ever-resonant avant-garde out of the folk-art influences of their early surroundings. Rolling and tumbling, shaking and stomping – this canon encompasses the hard blues and deep lament, keening celebration and hollering protest. Wound through the DNA of such avant-jazz numbers as “Humpty Dumpty,” “Dogon A.D.,” “Walls-Bridges” and “Song for Ché” are the age-old sounds of back-alley bars and carnival midways, funeral processions and holiday parades, the rave-ups of Saturday night shading into the hymns of Sunday morning.

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