Extensions

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Dave Holland has commanded such respect at the very top levels of American jazz, thanks only in part to his work, beginning in the late 1960s, with Miles Davis and then Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, and Sam Rivers. As that list suggests, the Englishman set out on his fascinating jazz voyage with some of the best, and he has managed, as a leader, always to gather instrumentalists who, while not necessarily the best-known names, have consistently been extraordinarily talented. That is sparklingly the case here. On such tracks as "Nemesis," which starts as a fairly straight-ahead, funk-vamp piece, both alto saxophonist Steve Coleman and electric guitarist Kevin Eubanks elevate the music with stunning performances. The imagination, vigor, and rhythmic variation of their work--not to mention just the sheer amount of music they generate moment to moment--at times beggars comprehension. The music seems to gush and tumble forth from the interior of such tunes. That effect is, perhaps, the Holland hallmark, and it is amply exemplified here. --Peter Monaghan

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Average customer rating: MDR Review of Man. Tr. totally refined album Listening to this CD will take you back to 1979! CLASSIC Vocal amazement

Extensions The Manhattan Transfer Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocalese | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Jazz General | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Oldies | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Broadway & Vocalists | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Jazz | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mecca for Moderns The Manhattan Transfer Vocalese Bodies and Souls Brasil ASIN: B000002I9S Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Birdland
2. Wacky Dust
3. Nothin' You Can Do About It
4. Coo Coo U
5. Body And Soul
6. Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone
7. Trickle Trickle
8. Shaker Song
9. Foreign Affair

Customer Reviews:

MDR Review of Man. Tr........2007-05-14

I purchased this CD because of (as it turned out) the first song on the CD. Un fortunately I did not like the rest of the CD nearly as much.

totally refined album.......2004-07-01

This album was produced by the studio wizard JAY GLAYDON ,so the taste and the production feel is definitely commercial & entertaining & jazzy & poppish.This modern electric approach made them a big star.If you are looking for a jazz chorus with a pop mind, this is the right stuff.These singers can sing old and new numbers with perfection and sophisticated passion.

Listening to this CD will take you back to 1979!.......2003-12-06

I love this album! My favorite tracks are "Nothin' U Can Do About It", "Coo Coo U", and "Shaker Song". The group has never sounded finer with new addition, Cheryl Bentyne. The Manhattan Transfer has taken the ability to explore their vocal talents and bring it to a whole new level. And I enjoy listening to some of the modern jazz styles from the late 70s and early 80s on this album. There sure are some extensions here!

CLASSIC.......2001-10-16

This album is one of those rare gems that ages like fine wine. The originality in both the selections and the arrangements are infused with a real kick -- and an intense affection for the music. Birdland is one of those wildly perfect records that can send you into a dizzy euphoria upon every listening. Even the dated Twilight Tone still has power. Buy it and love it.

Vocal amazement.......2000-09-27

Nothing better for those who enjoy vocal thrills and originality. Tight and cool. Crisp and smooth. The tones move you to a new dimension....Hearing the CD takes me back to 1979...late nights listening to my stereo with headphones long after my parents had demanded I go to bed! Now, as a much "older child," I appreciate the music more than ever and know that it's one of the best-kept secrets!

Average customer rating: Extending Your Musical Horizons "Ecstacy on U Street" Looking ahead to the Milestone years Must-have for Tyner fans Essential McCoy Tyner

Extensions Mccoy Tyner Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Modern Post Bop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sahara Trident The Real McCoy Focal Point Enlightenment ASIN: B000005H3D Release Date: 1996-05-28

Tracks:

1. Message From The Nile
2. The Wanderer
3. Survival Blues
4. His Blessing

Customer Reviews:

Extending Your Musical Horizons.......2006-06-27

This is a very special and wonderful CD certain to be enjoyed by jazz lovers and those with an appetite for "exotic" music. Most jazz CDs are simply a collection of songs; about the only thing unifying them is that they're all being played by the same people. McCoy Tyner's Extensions is the polar opposite. Although the term "concept album" is reminiscent of wretched excesses inflicted on an unsuspecting public by self-indulgent rockers and greedy music executives, it does apply here. The four tracks of Extensions, though wildly disparate, knit together into a perfectly integrated whole that casts a very particular kind of spell.

Coltrane's ventures into the music of other continents and cultures are well known, and McCoy Tyner was right there with him. The presence of his widow, Alice Coltrane, whose harp adds an ethereal beauty to Extensions, seems both a literal and figurative homage to this sense of musical adventure and spiritual quest. Whether African or Asian, the feeling of other lands wafts through this music like trade winds; perhaps it is most accurate to say that the river Nile never seems too far away.

To praise the individual players resembles gilding the lily. Tyner is arguably our greatest jazz pianist, and he is particularly on point here. Wayne Shorter is simply on fire, at times one can picture him lifting off the ground, his soprano saxophone work is especially appropriate to the feeling of transcendent searching that permeates this CD. If you can find a better jazz drummer than Elvin Jones, please tell me, his drumming churns like boiling water, simply amazing. Gary Bartz would be the headline in any other group, he and Shorter blend perfectly, while Ron Carter offers a solid foundation which is indispensable to this musical voyage. This music definitely kicks, it's got the heat and emotion one finds only in the best jazz. But it gives you more than it. Extensions offers deeply spiritual music for the journey, the journey beyond the horizon.

"Ecstacy on U Street".......2006-04-15

When I heard McCoy Tyner play the title cut of this album at Washington DC's Bohemian Caverns Jazz Club, I was ecstatic. Transported to earlier periods of music listening (40 years ago), I immediately purchased the CD and reunited this more contemporary piece with my old 60s standbys by Alice Coltrane, Wayne Shorter and Pharoah Sanders. If you missed this one in '96, 2006, a decade after release is definitely not too late!

Looking ahead to the Milestone years.......2002-01-21

This exceptional album was one of McCoy Tyner's last albums for Blue Note, and it looks forward to the great run he would have on Milestone records for the rest of the 70s. Though it doesn't yet feature the dense, chromatic piano playing of Sahara and Enlightenment, a lot of the other elements are there -- extended modal blowing, elements of African and Asian music, and the appearance of background percussion.

The lineup is the modal all-star team: not only former Tyner bandmate Elvin Jones, but also the great Wayne Shorter (who is quite "convincing" and "original", and contributes one of the best soprano solos ever on "Message from the Nile") and Gary Bartz on saxophones, and a surprise appearance by Alice Coltrane on the harp. Though she isn't a virtuoso soloist, the harp really adds to the exotic feel of the music. Ron Carter provides a flexible bedrock for the music.

"Message from the Nile" (amazing, amazing, amazing) and "The Wanderer" are in the modal bag; "His Blessings" is a floating tone poem that could have indeed appeared on an Alice Coltrane album. Despite being further removed from the John Coltrane Quartet sound than The Real McCoy (1967), Extensions is a great companion to the masterpieces Tyner recorded for Milestone; if you like it, be sure to pick up Sahara (1972).

Must-have for Tyner fans.......2000-05-20

Tyner's recent work, with a couple of notable exceptions, has been in the trio, duo or solo settings. Throughout the late '60s and the '70s, however, he put out a long series of small-group releases featuring some of the finest horn players of the day. "Extensions" is a gem among these.

Gary Bartz and Wayne Shorter, two of jazz's best sax players, then and now, make powerful contributions to "Extensions." Shorter is of course most often linked to his time with Miles Davis, but he and Tyner had a long and fruitful association in the '60s, with McCoy often joining Shorter on the latter's great Blue Note LPs. On this release, we get to hear Shorter's superb work on soprano sax (most notably "Message from the Nile"), which he had begun playing late in his time with Miles. Bartz, on alto, is, as always, a firestorm.

Tyner added Alice Coltrane on harp to enrich the mixture, then finished it off with Elvin Jones' boiling drums and Ron Carter's impeccable bass. The result is an exotic, yet muscular and bluesy sound that stands up to repeated listenings. To sample the variety in sound and mood that Tyner achieved on this album, contrast the driving "Survival Blues" with the ethereal "His Blessings."

Top-flight musicians, Tyner's incomparable blend of thunder and lightning on the keyboard and an unforced air of spirituality and awareness of jazz's African roots make "Extensions" a musical experience you'll enjoy again and again.

Essential McCoy Tyner.......1999-11-30

Extensions is a must for any fan of McCoy, whether its him solo or him with Coltrane or him with the myriad of Bluenoters during the 60's. This album really has it all. It's interesting too because he chose Alice Coltrane to play harp on 3 of 4 songs. And her presence is quite apparant. The final song, "His Blessing," sounds like something that could have easily appeared on her album "Journey in Satchidananda," or "Ptah The El Daoud." (Both are phenomenal albums by the way, check them out!)

McCoy brought in his best rhythm section I think... himself, Elvin Jones, and Ron Carter. I love Jimmy Garrison, but I really like the chemistry between these three. To my ears, Carter is just more flexible for this sort of thing. McCoy's soloists are Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano and Gary Bartz on alto! And Alice fits in somewhere in between. Atmosphere.

The songs are extended modal pieces. Message from home kicks off with Ron Carters plucked bass and sweeping harp from Coltrane and eventually roars into a strong song with some great soloing by Shorter (on soprano) and Bartz. The Wanderer is a shorter (not Wayne, shorter in time) song with a fine solo by Elvin Jones, and no harp playing. Survival Blues is more like the title track... very powerful. And the last song, His Blessing, is a little different for McCoy. As I mentioned before it could have been something written by Alice Coltrane. It's slow and pretty with lots of harp and arco bass.

This is a good, solid album, with a little bit of flavor to spice things up. It's different. It's essential. Nice sound too, though it would be even better if it was remastered. I think Wayne Shorter's soprano would sound a lot cleaner. Get the cd though, it's an unnotticed jem!

Average customer rating: Fusion! Coleman5 Eubanks5 Holland5 Smitty Smith5 Lord thundering JESUS! Breathtaking is a clche but it needs to be used here superb music....

Extensions Dave Holland Quartet Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Conference of the Birds Points of View Prime Directive Critical Mass The Razor's Edge ASIN: B000025Z4I Release Date: 2000-04-11

Tracks:

1. Nemesis
2. Processional
3. Black Hole
4. The Oracle
5. 101 Degree Fahrenheit (Slow Meltdown)
6. Color Of Mind

Amazon.com

Dave Holland has commanded such respect at the very top levels of American jazz, thanks only in part to his work, beginning in the late 1960s, with Miles Davis and then Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, and Sam Rivers. As that list suggests, the Englishman set out on his fascinating jazz voyage with some of the best, and he has managed, as a leader, always to gather instrumentalists who, while not necessarily the best-known names, have consistently been extraordinarily talented. That is sparklingly the case here. On such tracks as "Nemesis," which starts as a fairly straight-ahead, funk-vamp piece, both alto saxophonist Steve Coleman and electric guitarist Kevin Eubanks elevate the music with stunning performances. The imagination, vigor, and rhythmic variation of their work--not to mention just the sheer amount of music they generate moment to moment--at times beggars comprehension. The music seems to gush and tumble forth from the interior of such tunes. That effect is, perhaps, the Holland hallmark, and it is amply exemplified here. --Peter Monaghan

Customer Reviews:

Fusion!.......2006-06-13

Of all the excellent Dave Holland small group recordings to review, I picked this one. Five stars is redundant and limiting. This recording is one of the most exciting and inspired examples of Mr. Holland's leadership.

Coleman5 Eubanks5 Holland5 Smitty Smith5.......2005-12-31

20 stars. This album does not deserves less than twenty stars. It is one of the best release from Dave Holland if not his overall best. Surely this has been one of his best combo. Read the names involved here, Steve Coleman, Kevin Eubanks, Marvin Smitty Smith. It's a dream team. It may seem an all star album, a kind of experiment which often don't led to nothing valuable musically if not futile showmanship. This is not the case. This album is nothing less than absolutly amazing under any point of view. Composition, improvisation, interplay. It's stellar post bop, "funky", free atonal Jazz with an accent on melody (it may seems a contradiction but it is just that!). It's free atonal jazz with odd meter signature but even if it may sound awkward the music flows naturally from the very beginning thanks to the incredible rhitmic tandem that Holland and Smith form. Under the soloist there's always an incredible rich rhytmic textures. Dave Holland is truly an amazing player. But here are playing three of my heroes I can't do nothing but absolutly love this album, Steve Coleman, Kevin Eubanks, Marvin Smitty Smith. As a Jazz guitar player myself I think that Jazz guitar in a modern context never sounded so right. And one more thing about Coleman. He's the one that really tried to bring Bird's language to the next millennium, to evolve it, to develope his wild sense of syncopation... he reached an amazing level of expression. In particular he found in this music his perfect vehicle to express his ideas in my opinion. The fluidity he reached here I don't think he played again elsewhere, neither in his own albums (and I own many of his). This album is absolutly a gem. Put it in the cd reader, sit on your most comfortable sofà, closed the light and prepare for an unbelievable music journey!

Lord thundering JESUS!.......2005-10-15

Yes....this is one h e double hockeysticks of a performance. I am not a jazz afficianado.....but I am a lover of ALL musical forms as long as it has heart, and this recording flattened me.

Having never heard Kevin Eubanks, when I listened to his playing I was utterly speechless. If you are new to Dave's work as I was just go for it. And while you are at it, if you liked Eubanks' work on this check out Dave's earlier work with John Abercrombie on Gateway. Methinks Kevin consciously tips his hat to his predecessor quite admirably on Extensions (especially Nemesis!)

Breathtaking is a clche but it needs to be used here.......2005-02-25

Extensions is one of the best studio performances I've ever heard. I was a DJ at a college Jazz radio station when this released and it was extremely well received by fans of all genres of music. Don't hesitate on this one. Order it now.

superb music...........2003-08-05

Buy this one. Its great. Far mor interesting then the scolohofo stuff. He is shurely one of a kind.

Average customer rating: A Blast from the Past

Extensions Mystic Moods Orchestra Manufacturer: EMI Special Products ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Retro Space Age | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Easy Listening | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Easy Listening | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: ONE STORMY NIGHT STORMY WEEKEND MORE THAN MUSIC Mystic Moods Of Love ASIN: B000002TD9 Release Date: 1995-11-01

Tracks:

1. California Dreamin'
2. Nothing on My Mind/Moments Ago
3. Last Thing on My Mind
4. If You Must Leave My Life
5. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
6. Webb of Jim Collage (MacArthur Park/Yard Went on Forever)
7. There's a Good Earth Out Tonight
8. Theme from Shoes of the Fisherman
9. Paul Simon Montage (Bookends/Old Friends/Flowers Never Bend in the ...)
10. Lalena

Customer Reviews:

A Blast from the Past.......2007-05-20

The cover of the CD is probably the only woefully inadequate part. I had the album when it first came out and THAT cover was awesome.

When the original album first came out, it was the first time sound effects were incorporated with lush orchestration. Rock groups like Deep Purple and Electric Flag had already been experimenting with sounds that came from sources other than their guitars and drums.

There are some tracks here that can only be described as "hauntingly beautiful." NOTHING ON MY MIND/MOMENTS AGO is one of them. It is beautiful enough to make you cry the first time you hear it.

Oh, and the tracks do not match up. Thank CD technology for that one. On the album, very often the tracks would run together because of the sound effects, stuff like a rain storm or a locomotive in the distance. Of course, it would have been awful to split up the obvious medleys created by the sound effects. You've heard what a CD sound like when it goes to another track. So the sound editor here kept "There's A Good Earth Out Tonight" and "Theme from Shoes of a Fisherman" in the same track as "Webb of Jim Collage." Unfortunately, whoever designed the cover obviously hadn't bothered to listen to the actual CD, opting instead to go by the track lineup of the original album.

I mention this so you won't think you were gypped out of those songs. They are there, but the labeling is wrong.

The album was wonderful, and the CD is almost as good. Of course, one can play the CD in one's automobile, which gives it an edge over the album.

Average customer rating: Igloo Magazine's REVIEW This is a fantastic CD My Favorite Album wow This CD iz da BOMB!!!

Red Extensions of Me Flashbulb Manufacturer: Sublight Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Kirlian Selections Flexing Habitual Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett Vector Lovers Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms ASIN: B0001GQ7XC Release Date: 2004-03-02

Tracks:

1. In An Instant
2. Lawn Wake I
3. Lawn Wake II
4. Lawn Wake III
5. Sun Rise Jul
6. An External Frost
7. Planet TH
8. If Trees Could Speak
9. The Son And The Star
10. Didj Z
11. Black Lawn Finale
12. Sensual Data
13. Never Remember January
14. Sunset Hamun
15. Earthtone Morphine Battery
16. Eight Empty Beds
17. Lucid Bass I
18. Lucid Bass II

Customer Reviews:

Igloo Magazine's REVIEW.......2005-12-03

Review by: Paul Lloyd at [...] (10.06.04)
Benn Jordan has been recording and releasing music under various incarnations since 1994 but releases Red Extensions of Me as his debut for Canadian label Sublight Records. With a quite extensive discography of releases listed on his website, mainly due to his releasing music to local record stores for sale without publicity, Jordan is well-versed in music production, composing recording and producing almost all of the album. Sharing label space with the likes of Venetian Snares and Fanny gives some indication what to expect from Jordan's work - breakbeats, twisted samples, elements of classic experimental electronic music along with the occasional foray into funk and even some guitar and melodies for good measure. Where Jordan differs from the likes of VSnares is that his music is less abstract whilst maintaining the same fractured sound, if with more structure. He also maintains his sense of humor throughout and never seems to take himself too seriously. Take "If Trees Could Speak" for example which bears more than a passing resemblance to Madonna's "Don't Tell Me".

At first luring you in with some nice piano melodies on "In an Instant" Jordan soon hits you with a noisy barrage of broken breaks and toy guitar riffs with "Lawn Wake I", then taking "Lawn Wake II" into more experimental electronic direction before finishing the trilogy with the textural breaks of "Lake Wake III". Keeping up the mellower vibe and adding some funky guitar is "An External Frost" and "Sunset Hamlin" while "Planet TH" takes us on a futuristic space journey. In complete contrast, "Didj Z" is a tense ambient track with guitar and voice instrumentation. Similarly, "Black Lawn Finale" features a backdrop of piano melodies and sweeping ambience under the frantic breaks. As with VSnares, there is a lot more to Jordan's music than there first seems; below the breaks and fractured noises are piano melodies and sweeping ambient textures showing there is more to his music than just a beat onslaught. Fittingly, Red Extensions of Me closes with a similar piano piece to its start but with the bonus of two excellent sample laden bonus tracks to follow. Red Extensions of Me is an enjoyable album and an interesting take on the breakcore genre that never takes itself too seriously but also has hidden depth.

This is a fantastic CD.......2004-11-16

This cd is really wonderful. I love everything about it. The piano music is inventive and lovely, and the serious electronic parts of it really draw the listener in. This CD has made me far more interested in this genre of music.

My Favorite Album.......2004-05-11

I first got into more experimental electronic music after buying Go Plastic on a hunch, which was right before a friend showed me Windowlicker. This music totally blew my mind. It's like what I had been waiting for all my life. I am a huge fan of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, but have to admit that The Flashbulb is my favorite artist. He carves a unique nitch in this music that to me is essential. His albums are stellar productions of quality tracks, each one formed into a perfect flowing whole. It took me a year after getting into this music, even searching diligently for new artists, to discover him. Luckily, I went to a Zod concert in Philly where they were selling These Open Fields. That started an obsessive hunt to find more of his work. All his albums that I've been able to buy are stunning productions. From beginning to end they never cease to rock my world. Some weren't exactly easy to find either. Fortunately for you this release has large distributorship. So far I've bought Drain Mode On, These Open Fields, Girls Suck But You Don't, Resent and the April Sunshine Shed, and the latest piping-hot, mind-shattering release, Red Extensions of Me. I've listened to Red Extensions a million times already and think it is my favorite, but then I've been going back and listening to all the other albums, and they still sound so incredible. All his albums have a different vibe so it's kinda hard to pick a favorite. The Flashbulb's talent impresses me so much that I feel like he should be a household name around the world. I don't hear enough good things about him in news and reviews. In my eyes, he already is a super-star. I've learned a lot about the music business observing him (or have been confused by it). I used to innocently think all you needed was one good album to quit your day job and becoming financially independent. To me, the Flashbulb is at the top, his albums are the bomb, but yet he is still gaining recognition that I figured he would have had long ago. I'm not the best at describing music, so I won't go into a description of the music on Red Extensions. However, I do want to say that he is much more than an unreal knob tweaking programmer (though that's very cool), playing piano, guitars and other instruments, and sometimes adding interesting vocals to his amazing compositions. All of it creates rich emotional depth for the music. I mainly wanted to get the point across about my enthusisam for this release and The Flashbulb as an artist. This release will not dissapoint. I'm one for superlatives, but honestly feel like this is THE best album I own. Hope you enjoy it too!

wow.......2004-04-06

this album puts flashbulb on top of the genre. hasnt left my cd player for weeks.
benn jordan is a freakin god!

This CD iz da BOMB!!!.......2004-03-11

If you've never heard of The Flashbulb, ... check it out. I've been listening to his music for around a year and I recently got a chance to C him live.....Beautiful tones and great production litters his work. The music is deep, involved, and enlightning. This album is Benn's best work to date. It's a mix of all electronic music. Fast drill 'n bass, slow melodic electronica, and even vocoded vocals are all included. Support this artist as he is one of the best in The biz right now. I would compare him to the likes of Aphex, Squarepusher and others, but it's really not comparable. What The Flashbulb creates is new, exciting, and sometimes mind-blowing. Do yourself a favor and buy this CD right now...Peace!

Average customer rating:

Voice Is the Original Instrument Manufacturer: Lovely Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by La Barbara | La Barbara, Joan | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000C7PV8 Release Date: 2003-09-30

Tracks:

1. Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation
2. Hear What I Feel
3. Circular Song
4. Des Accords pour Teeny
5. Les Oiseaux qui chantent dans ma t

Tracks:

1. Vocal Extensions
2. Twelvesong (Zwesang)
3. "q-/-uatre petites bs"
4. Cathing
5. Autumn Signal
6. October Music: Star Showers and Extraterrestrials

Album Description

Collection of early works and her first vocal compositions, originally released on LPs in the 1970s and early 1980s on her own Wizard Records. "One of my earliest pieces, `Hear What I Feel', was a self-exploratory, sensory-deprivation experimental work, designed to help me discover new sounds, delve into psychological aspects, as well as communicate with the audience on a pre-verbal level of awareness. After spending an hour in isolation with my eyes taped shut and not touching anything with my hands, I was led our into the performance space where my assistant had placed a variety of substances in six small glass dishes. As I touched the material, I tried to give an immediate vocal response to what I felt both emotionally and physically, without the benefit of visual information. I expected the shock of bringing a solitary state of mind into the heightened awareness of a performance situation to intensify my experience, and the poignancy of my `prepared' state to affect the audience. The sounds are presented here in their raw state; it is truly an experimental work with no intentional musical implications or designs. `Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation' explores the color spectrum of a single pitch. Circular Song was inspired by the circular breathing technique of horn players. `Des Accords pour Teeny', an exploration of multi-phonic technique or choral singing, was dedicated to Teeny Duchamp. In much of my early work I dealt with sound as a physical presence, sculpting it, building up layers in complex constructions, letting the flow of thought and the visualization of sonic gestures direct my studio art. Voice Is the Original Instrument was both a statement of purpose and a manifesto as, through various experiments and explorations, I tried to rediscover the basic function of the voice as the first means of expression as well as to release untapped sonic material. As I gave my classically trained voice its freedom, letting it direct me toward new places and ideas, I developed what was a unique vocabulary and used those sounds to score an orchestra of layered voices."

Average customer rating: Great modern recording

Thomas Stevens, Trumpet Manufacturer: Crystal Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Antheil, George | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Henze | Henze, Hans Werner | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ibert, Jacques | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Maxwell Davies, Peter | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tomasi | Tomasi, Henri | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Trumpet | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Thomas Stevens Trumpet Sonatas Virtuoso Trumpet David Hickman, Trumpet Thomas Stevens, Trumpet Trumpet in our Time ASIN: B000003J5X Release Date: 1993-12-29

Tracks:

1. Son: Allegro Moderato
2. Son: Lento
3. Son: Allegro Vivo
4. Son: Allegretto
5. Son: Dolce
6. Son: Scherzo Vivace
7. Son: Allegretto
8. Triangles: Senza Misura - Thomas Stevens/Donald Green/Rob Roy McGregor
9. Triangles: Quasi Lento - Thomas Stevens/Donald Green/Rob Roy McGregor
10. Triangles: Presto Possible - Thomas Stevens/Donald Green/Rob Roy McGregor
11. Sonatina: Toccata - Thomas Stevens
12. Sonatina: Canzone - Thomas Stevens
13. Sonatina: Segnali - Thomas Stevens
14. Three Ideas: Adagio Non Troppo - Thomas Stevens/Chet Swiatkowski
15. Three Ideas: Allegro Scherzando - Thomas Stevens/Chet Swiatkowski
16. Three Ideas: Lento - Thomas Stevens/Chet Swiatkowski
17. Extensions - Thomas Stevens/Charlie Shoemake/Barry Lieberman
18. Vars On Clifford Intervals - Thomas Stevens/Charlie Shoemake/Barry Lieberman
19. A New Carnival Of Venice - Thoas Stevens/Rob Roy McGregor/Boyde Hood/Donald Green/David Wheatley
20. Rondo For Lifey
21. Triptyque: Scherzo
22. Triptyque: Largo
23. Triptyque: Salterelle
24. Impromptu

Customer Reviews:

Great modern recording.......2005-08-06

Thomas Stevens is one of the best modern players putting out recordings. Excellent sound, impeccable technique, and solid style make the album a staple for any collection. The George Antheil Sonata is particularly good, graceful and exciting. The Hans Werner Henze is also worth hearing, and the New Carnival of Venice is interesting and amusing.

Average customer rating: Not as good as the original Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix) is the best remix Ever! The best Louie Vega in a long time Smooth and Ecclectic

Elements of Life: Extensions Louie Vega Manufacturer: Vega Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Elements of Life Dance Ritual The Kings of House Soul Heaven: London & Ibiza Mix the Vibe: For the Love of King Street ASIN: B0001ZMX22 Release Date: 2005-01-25

Tracks:

1. Jungle Fever (ATOJ Remix)
2. Cerca De Mi (Kenny Dope Remix)
3. Sunshine (Sacred Rhythm mix)
4. Ma Mi Mama (FreeForm U Heirs Vox Mix)
5. Let The Children Play
6. Love Is On The Way
7. Journeys Prelude (NuLife Remix)
8. Thousand Fingered Man
9. Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix)
10. Mozalounge (Jazz-N-Groove Remix)
11. Nos Vida (MAW Remix)
12. A Better Day (DJ Spinna Remix)
13. Steel Congo (ATOJ mix)

Product Description

1. Jungle Fever (Jazzy Jeff Mix)
2. Cerca De Mi (Kenny Dope Mix)
3. Sunshine (Sacred Rhythm Mix)
4. Mama Mi Mama (FreeForm U Heirs Vox Mix)
5. Let The Children Play
6. Love Is On The Way
7. Journey's Prelude (NuLife Remix)
8. Thousand Fingered Man
9. Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix)
10. Mozalounge (Jazz-N-Groove Remix)
11. Nos Vida (MAW Remix)
12. A Better Day (DJ Spinna Remix)
13. Steel Congo (ATOJ Mix)

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Not as good as the original.......2005-12-16

I already had the "Elements of Life" and waited with anticipation for this remix album. What made the first album so amazing was the teaming up of accomplished musicians and artist with MAW to create that natural sound and feel. A natural vibe comes across in the first album that seems to be missing on "Extensions". This album sounds almost like something that was created just because the record comapny wanted some remixes. Certainly not as good as the original but gives an interesting twist to the originals. After hearing the "Extensions", given the choice I would stick with the original.

Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix) is the best remix Ever!.......2005-10-12

What can I say it's amazing. The only bad thing about the version on this remixes set is the edited version not the full length version that I would love to have and heard on Defected's In The House mixed by Dimitry From Paris. There are other great remixes on this set but the best thing about it is Mon Amour (DG Gregory Remix). It's absolutely fabulous!!!

SJ
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The best Louie Vega in a long time.......2005-09-21

I purchased the Original Elements of Life, a two vinyl set. It is pretty good, but the Elements of Life: Extensions takes things to another level. Maybe it's the inclusion of such talented musicians like Raul Midon. I love the jazzier cuts on this album.

among my favorites:
Cerca de Mi
Let the Children Play
A Better Day

these are the kinds of songs that never die.

A supreme effort!!!

Smooth and Ecclectic.......2005-02-09

Louis does it again with this Extension to Elements of Life. This is a really good cd for the down-tempo house heads but then again Louis never disappoints. My personal favorite is Track 8 and 9 because I'm also a disco head and the tracks have a "feverish" sound to it. I'll admit I bought the CD because of this guy that I'm crushing hard on who has excellent taste plus the fact that it was Louis Vega. So when he suggested, I took a chance....and so should you.

Average customer rating: Beautifully Interpreted Survey of Feldman's Piano Music Floating and scattered beauty unfolding slowly over time

Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman Manufacturer: Mode ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Feldman | Feldman, Morton | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Improvisation | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Intermezzos | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet / Aki Takahashi, Kronos Quartet Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns? Morton Feldman: Complete Violin|Viola and Piano Works / Christina Fong, Paul Hersey Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman ASIN: B000000NZ7 Release Date: 1996-09-24

Tracks:

1. Illusions pt. 1
2. Illusions pt. 2
3. Illusions pt. 3
4. Illusions pt. 4
5. Two Intermissions pt. 1
6. Two Intermissions pt. 2
7. Extensions 3
8. Pno Piece 1955
9. Pno Piece (to Philip Guston)
10. Pno
11. Palais de Mari

Customer Reviews:

Beautifully Interpreted Survey of Feldman's Piano Music.......2002-11-05

Aki Takahashi has impeccable credentials with Feldman's music. She was the composer's pianist of choice during the last decade of his life, when he was giving extensive lecture demonstrations on his work. And her recording of Piano and String Quartet with the Kronos is a darn near perfect album. So I looked to this CD with great hope, both as a listening experience and as a model for my own attempts at playing some of Feldman's music. I have not been disappointed.

The CD is really a broad sampling of Feldman's solo piano music. While not all of these pieces are top drawer Feldman, they do present a great overview of his stylistic development. In fact, the only major development missing is the graphically notated scores with which he initially made his reputation. The four part Illusions is the earliest work on the recording, and quite unlike any other Feldman work that I've heard or played. It clearly shows the influence of his teacher, Stepan Wolpe on the young Feldman. Like Wolpe's music, it is not serial, but it is freely atonal. The rhythms are jagged and the dynamics varied. Overall the effect is close to the Webern Piano Variations.

Written just a year later, the two Intermissions (from a series of 6 total pieces) signal the beginning of Feldman's first mature style and introduce the obsessions that the composer would become known for. The most striking thing about these pieces is the silence and space which are deeply integrated into the work. The decay of the piano, and the delicacy of attack become primary elements of the language. Musically the works consist of small points of sound...either single notes, widely spaced double notes or tense but soft clusters of highly dissonant chords...each separated by silence and space. Though the work is in a steady tempo, the rhythms are notated with a delicate precision that negate the feeling of pulse. The chords seem to flow in and out of our ears.

The next three pieces, Extension 3, Piano Piece 1955 and Piano Piece (for Phillip Gunston - not to be confused with the later ensemble piece) continue developing this same early style with significant variations. Extension 3 concerns itself with repetition and pattern, something that would become a major stylistic factor in Feldman's music of the 80s. It is also a beautifully shaped work, with a definate climax toward the end of the work as the rhythm heats up and chords are marked to be played as loud as possible. Piano Piece 1955 is concerned with durations. When a note ends is just as important with this piece as when it begins. A major organizing principle of the piece is the reverse arpeggio...a chord is struck and then selected notes are dampened and removed from the sound while others are held. It is a subtle and very beautiful effect. Piano Piece (for Phillip Gunston) continues this development while adding effects for sustain pedal, creating gently changing halos of sound.

The two major works on the album are Piano from 1977 and Palais de Mari. Piano is in what I consider Feldman's middle period style. The work is meticulously notated, the composer having given up on the more aleatoric elements of his early style. Like the Instrument and Orchestra works of the 70's Feldman organizes the work on recurrent chords, while not slavishly following any pattern. Rhythms shift and change and the weight of chords is always different, but this is not a pattern work, like so many of his most famous pieces of the 80s. Rather, it takes the brief music of the 50s and 60s and lengthens it to concert proportions.

Palais de Mari is the stunner on the album. This is definately in Feldman's late style, and perhaps an essential work in the composer's entire oevre. A quiet pattern is set up using very minimal means and varied in the most intensely subtle ways. A note changes here, and rhythm there, the register shifts, the same four note pattern in the treble is given a haunting change of underlying harmony. The chords are sometimes tense and dissonant, and sometimes almost impressionistic. This is a beautiful and meltingly lovely work, autumnal in the same way that late Brahms is...and reminicent of Feldman's Piano and String Quartet (if you don't like that work you won't like this one.) And what amazes is how much timbral variation the composer can get with just this simple means and a single instrument.

The sound and performance on this Mode CD is excellent. Takahashi has a delicacy of touch that is wonderful on this music. It is intimate, hushed and yet full. And she makes the music breath...something I have yet to learn how to do in this difficult repertoire. Once again, another highly recommended CD. While, outside of Palais de Mari, none of this material is essential Feldman (for that, you would need a long list but it might include For Phillip Gunston, For Samuel Beckett, Piano and Strings, the Second String Quartet, the Instrument and Orchestra Pieces....the list goes on...) it is a wonderful survey of the important periods in the composers career and when played with this much love, the CD is self-recommending.

Floating and scattered beauty unfolding slowly over time.......1999-04-04

If you ever met Morton Feldman you would never think his delicate sensual music is connected to the large burly kind of man, one time change smoker heavy New York accent,avaricious eater. Feldman emerged from the New York scene with John Cage they both made their fascination for the visual work for them in their music,in terms of musical process,duration time structure and unmusical concepts that become musical over time. Feldman has always been more lyrical having a greater magnetism toward purely arresting unshaped beauty. His primary aesthetic field has always been the piano, and Aki Takahashi has selected(not always so important) works throughout Feldman's career.In the longest work here "Piano" some 20 minutes we find a beginning interest in the pure beauty and problematics of writings longer works,musical works spanning hours. Like a voyager sailing the seas for months. The trick is to engaged a process that can unfold over these mammoth time fields and contain the unfolding of simple tones. All of this late music I dare to say began to become more accessible and homogenized,simple two voice ideas would last longer instead of (as we find in early Feldman) the almost continuous shifting of piano registers floating in an out of differering piano timbres as the early works here attests. This music inspired a generation and continues to inspire younger generation that perhaps philosophically we need beauty in this world and should unabashedly search for what quites the mind yet keeping our options open.

Average customer rating: Fusion! Coleman5 Eubanks5 Holland5 Smitty Smith5 Lord thundering JESUS! Breathtaking is a clche but it needs to be used here superb music....

Extensions Dave Holland Quartet Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Conference of the Birds Points of View Prime Directive Critical Mass The Razor's Edge ASIN: B0000031VR Release Date: 1994-05-10

Tracks:

1. Nemesis
2. Processional
3. Black Hole
4. The Oracle
5. 101 Degree Fahrenheit (Slow Meltdown)
6. Color Of Mind

Amazon.com

Dave Holland has commanded such respect at the very top levels of American jazz, thanks only in part to his work, beginning in the late 1960s, with Miles Davis and then Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, and Sam Rivers. As that list suggests, the Englishman set out on his fascinating jazz voyage with some of the best, and he has managed, as a leader, always to gather instrumentalists who, while not necessarily the best-known names, have consistently been extraordinarily talented. That is sparklingly the case here. On such tracks as "Nemesis," which starts as a fairly straight-ahead, funk-vamp piece, both alto saxophonist Steve Coleman and electric guitarist Kevin Eubanks elevate the music with stunning performances. The imagination, vigor, and rhythmic variation of their work--not to mention just the sheer amount of music they generate moment to moment--at times beggars comprehension. The music seems to gush and tumble forth from the interior of such tunes. That effect is, perhaps, the Holland hallmark, and it is amply exemplified here. --Peter Monaghan

Customer Reviews:

Fusion!.......2006-06-13

Of all the excellent Dave Holland small group recordings to review, I picked this one. Five stars is redundant and limiting. This recording is one of the most exciting and inspired examples of Mr. Holland's leadership.

Coleman5 Eubanks5 Holland5 Smitty Smith5.......2005-12-31

20 stars. This album does not deserves less than twenty stars. It is one of the best release from Dave Holland if not his overall best. Surely this has been one of his best combo. Read the names involved here, Steve Coleman, Kevin Eubanks, Marvin Smitty Smith. It's a dream team. It may seem an all star album, a kind of experiment which often don't led to nothing valuable musically if not futile showmanship. This is not the case. This album is nothing less than absolutly amazing under any point of view. Composition, improvisation, interplay. It's stellar post bop, "funky", free atonal Jazz with an accent on melody (it may seems a contradiction but it is just that!). It's free atonal jazz with odd meter signature but even if it may sound awkward the music flows naturally from the very beginning thanks to the incredible rhitmic tandem that Holland and Smith form. Under the soloist there's always an incredible rich rhytmic textures. Dave Holland is truly an amazing player. But here are playing three of my heroes I can't do nothing but absolutly love this album, Steve Coleman, Kevin Eubanks, Marvin Smitty Smith. As a Jazz guitar player myself I think that Jazz guitar in a modern context never sounded so right. And one more thing about Coleman. He's the one that really tried to bring Bird's language to the next millennium, to evolve it, to develope his wild sense of syncopation... he reached an amazing level of expression. In particular he found in this music his perfect vehicle to express his ideas in my opinion. The fluidity he reached here I don't think he played again elsewhere, neither in his own albums (and I own many of his). This album is absolutly a gem. Put it in the cd reader, sit on your most comfortable sofà, closed the light and prepare for an unbelievable music journey!

Lord thundering JESUS!.......2005-10-15

Yes....this is one h e double hockeysticks of a performance. I am not a jazz afficianado.....but I am a lover of ALL musical forms as long as it has heart, and this recording flattened me.

Having never heard Kevin Eubanks, when I listened to his playing I was utterly speechless. If you are new to Dave's work as I was just go for it. And while you are at it, if you liked Eubanks' work on this check out Dave's earlier work with John Abercrombie on Gateway. Methinks Kevin consciously tips his hat to his predecessor quite admirably on Extensions (especially Nemesis!)

Breathtaking is a clche but it needs to be used here.......2005-02-25

Extensions is one of the best studio performances I've ever heard. I was a DJ at a college Jazz radio station when this released and it was extremely well received by fans of all genres of music. Don't hesitate on this one. Order it now.

superb music...........2003-08-05

Buy this one. Its great. Far mor interesting then the scolohofo stuff. He is shurely one of a kind.

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