Track Listing 1. Cohesion - Matthew Shipp 2. Then Again - Blue Series Continuum 3. Jalapeño Diplomacy - Tim Berne 4. Out of the Blue - DJ Wally 5. Monstro City - Antipop Consortium 6. Ananda Rotation - David S. Ware String Ensemble 7. That Subliminal Kid vs. the Last Mohican - DJ Spooky 8. Mist - Blue Series Continuum 9. Spirits Came In - Fred Anderson Quartet/Kidd Jordan 10. Scrapbook - William Parker 11. Sunrise Over Bklyn - Ei-P 12. Lit - Spring Heel Jack
| Details | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Performers include: Antipop Consortium, Tim Berne's Science Friction Band, DJ Spooky, Mad Professor, Lee "Scratch" Perry, DJ Wally, El-P, William Parker Violin Trio, Matthew Shipp, Spring Heel Jack, David S. Ware String Ensemble. Personnel: Jason Pierce, Marc Ducret (electric guitar); Daniel Bernard Roumain, Ed Coxon, Billy Bang (violin); Mat Maneri (viola); Peter Gordon (flute); Evan Ziporyn (clarinet); Daniel Carter (reeds, trumpet); Evan Parker (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Fred Anderson , Kidd Jordan, Tim Berne (alto saxophone); David S. Ware (tenor saxophone); Kenny Wheeler (trumpet, flugelhorn); Roy Campbell (trumpet); Josh Roseman, Paul Rutherford, Steve Swell, Alex Lodico (trombone); Matthew Shipp (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Craig Taborn (Fender Rhodes piano, organ, computer); Flam (synthesizer, programming); Khan Jamal (vibraphone); George Trebar, John Edwards (double bass); Gerald Cleaver, Guillermo E. Brown, Hamid Drake, Han Bennink, Tom Rainey (drums); Keef Destefano (sampler). Audio Remixer: DJ Goo. Authors: DJ Wally; David S. Ware; Matthew Shipp; Tim Berne; Peter Gordon . Photographer: Cynthia Fetty. Unknown Contributor Role: Craig Taborn. While many labels issue samplings of their artists to hip the consumer to what it is they have to offer them as product, the folks at Thirsty Ear, curated by pianist and composer Matthew Shipp, put together Blue Series Sampler, an aesthetic sampling of what is inarguably the most exciting, forward-thinking jazz label in the United States. The Blue Series deal is one based on approaches to creating music, not genre approaches. Hence, there are tracks from Shipp's varied acoustic and electric ensembles, DJ tracks by everybody from Spooky to the cats in Spring Heel Jack playing live with everyone from Evan Parker to William Parker, to David S. Ware's new string band, to El-P's forthcoming experimental forays into jazz and hip-hop, with a ton of stuff in between. There are no dogs, no forsaken tracks, and no haphazardly chosen selection on this collection -- great evidence is the inclusion of the Kidd Jordan/Fred Anderson cut from the Vision Festival. This is just the shape of jazz to come, but its texture, its treatise, its look, sound, and artifice all sprawled out in Technicolor blue. ~ Thom Jurek
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