Thirsty Ear Presents: Blue Series Sampler [2003]

by BLUE SERIES

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	09/23/2003
Label:	THIRSTY EAR
UPC:	0700435713826

Tracks

1. Cohesion  - Matthew Shipp
2. Then Again  -  Blue Series Continuum
3. Jalape¿¿o Diplomacy  - Tim Berne
4. Out of the Blue  -  DJ Wally
5. Monstro City  -  Antipop Consortium
6. Ananda Rotation  - Matthew Shipp  - David S. Ware  -  Ware
7. That Subliminal Kid vs. the Last Mohican  -  DJ Spooky
8. Mist  -  Blue Series Continuum  - Chip Davis
9. Spirits Came In  -  Anderson  - Kidd Jordan
10. Scrapbook  - Robert Lamm  - William Parker
11. Sunrise Over Bklyn  -  Ei P
12. Lit  -  Spring Heel Jack

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Fred Anderson Quartet   Primary Artist
Ei-P   Primary Artist
William Parker   Primary Artist,Bass
Kidd Jordan   Primary Artist,Sax (Alto)
Blue Series Continuum   Primary Artist
Matthew Shipp   Primary Artist,Piano,Fender Rhodes,Korg Synthesizer
Spring Heel Jack   Primary Artist
DJ Wally   Primary Artist
DJ Spooky   Primary Artist
David S. Ware String Ensemble   Primary Artist
Antipop Consortium   Primary Artist
Tim Berne   Primary Artist,Sax (Alto)
John Edwards   Double Bass
John Coxon   Multi Instruments
Jason Pierce   Guitar (Electric)
Josh Roseman   Trombone
Roy Campbell, Jr.   Trumpet
Mat Maneri   Viola
Alex Lodico   Trombone
Daniel Bernard Roumain   Violin
Hamid Drake   Drums
Fred Anderson   Sax (Alto)
Tom Rainey   Drums
Ashley Wales   Multi Instruments
Guillermo E. Brown   Drums
Han Bennink   Drums
Paul Rutherford   Trombone
Steve Swell   Trombone
Kenny Wheeler   Trumpet,Flugelhorn
Gerald Cleaver   Drums
Daniel Carter   Reeds,Trumpet
Khan Jamal   Vibraphone
Billy Bang   Violin
Craig Taborn   Organ,Computers,Fender Rhodes
Marc Ducret   Guitar (Electric)
Evan Ziporyn   Clarinet
George Trebar   Double Bass
Keef Destefano   Sampling
Ed Coxon   Violin
Peter Gordon   Flute
Evan Parker   Sax (Tenor),Sax (Soprano)
Flam   Synthesizer
David S. Ware   Sax (Tenor)

Technical Credits

Robert Lamm   Composer
Tim Berne   Composer
DJ Wally   Composer
Matthew Shipp   Composer
Chip Davis   Composer
William Parker   Composer
Loretta Wong   Design,Layout Design
DJ Goo   Remixing
Cynthia Fetty   Photography,Art Direction
GoodandEvil   Sounds
Flam   Programming
David S. Ware   Composer