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There's no doubt, however, that a piece like the buoyant and breezy "Falling Up," which you can listen to below, is jazz through and through, with Bishop's fine-grained tenor delivering fleet curlicues and motific elaboration on an elegant tuneful line. The album intersperses the six meditative, austere movements of the title suite with a variety of the leader's attractive original compositions, breaking things up nicely. Bishop was obviously not interested in a literal adaptation of des Prez here—whatever way he interpreted those centuries-old ideas resulted in something special here. The trio makes a rare local appearance tonight at Constellation, with the always busy Cleaver in tow (he'll be back at the venue with his own idiosyncratic group Black Host on April 24).
Today's playlist:
Don Bikoff, Celestial Explosion (Tompkins Square)
Berndt Egerbladh and His Quartet, When I Started to Play! (Jazzhus Disk, Japan)
Ensemble Alternance, Raphaël Cendo: Rokh (Stradivarius)
Roky Erickson, Gremlins Have Pictures (Light in the Attic)
Jabula, Thunder and Happiness: the Complete Albums (Retro/RPM)
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