Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The Declaration Of Musical Independence (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The Declaration Of Musical Independence (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:36 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM

The great avant-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille whose associations have ranged from a long, vintage collaboration with Cecil Taylor to co-leading current all-star collective Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman makes his ECM debut as bandleader on The Declaration Of Musical Independence and what a band it is! Guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboardist Richard Teitelbaum and double bassist Ben Street are perfectly in synch with Cyrille throughout this set that opens with a Coltrane cover (Coltrane Time) but is otherwise all-original, including three pieces composed by the entire quartet in the studio.

A portentous title for an unself-consciously inquisitive, selflessly collective quartet nominally led by the great drummer Andrew Cyrille, an elderly master of unpredictable yet flowing free-jazz momentum, steered by the kind of patience that drummers aren’t always famous for. His very classy partners here are Bill Frisell (guitar), jazz/classical synth pioneer Richard Teitelbaum (a long-time Cyrille collaborator) and Ben Street (double bass). A version of John Coltrane’s Coltrane Time kicks things off with a snare pattern Cyrille learned from Coltrane drummer Rashied Ali – which he sustains while the others float rhythmically and arrhythmically around him. Frisell’s melancholy Kaddish rings quietly on over Cyrille’s far-distant mallets, Street’s Say resembles a slow pop ballad, and Dazzling (Perchordally Yours) is built around alternations of single chord-hits and silences, the players reacting to the resonances. It all swings without regular swing, sounding fluently melodic, though much of it is cell-like and episodic. It might be too wrapped up in itself for some, but its close-listening musicality grows on you.

Tracklist:

01. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Coltrane Time (04:58)
02. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Kaddish (05:10)
03. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Sanctuary (04:16)
04. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Say… (05:00)
05. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Dazzling (Perchordially Yours) (09:52)
06. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Herky Jerky (03:25)
07. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Begin (03:10)
08. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Manfred (04:03)
09. Andrew Cyrille Quartet – Song For Andrew No.1 (05:38)

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