Simulated Progress

Simulated Progress

ASIN: B0009WFEYQ

Track Listings

1. Headlong

2. Transgression

3. Trips

4. Telematic

5. Media Studies

6. Gaudi

7. Transitions

8. Peril

9. Reprise

10. Infogee Dub

11. Durations

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
"On their second album, pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee engage in a series of dazzling dialogues that aim equally for listeners' feet and minds. Together, they create intensely rhythmic music that combines jazz ingenuity, rock velocity and world music savvy. Their visceral compositions constantly blur the lines between improvised flights of fancy and expertly calibrated arrangements." - SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE

Simulated Progress,Fieldwork,Pi Recordings,Avant-Garde,Avant-Garde Jazz,Jazz,M-Base,Modern Creative,Pop

Average customer rating:

fractal jazz..

Awesome Trio

NPR on the Money

A New Sound

Lack Of Progress

Simulated Progress
Fieldwork
Manufacturer: Pi Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
General | Jazz | Styles | Music
General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0009WFEYQ
Release Date: 2005-07-19

Tracks:

Headlong
Transgression
Trips
Telematic
Media Studies
Gaudi
Transitions
Peril
Reprise
Infogee Dub
Durations

Album Description

"On their second album, pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee engage in a series of dazzling dialogues that aim equally for listeners' feet and minds. Together, they create intensely rhythmic music that combines jazz ingenuity, rock velocity and world music savvy. Their visceral compositions constantly blur the lines between improvised flights of fancy and expertly calibrated arrangements." - SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE

Customer Reviews:

fractal jazz.........2006-03-10

Rhymtically adventurous and not confined to traditional ideas about jazz, fieldwork is another fine example of the power trio aesthetic currntly popping up in contemp jazz.
Each member of the trio takes turns playing what seem like lead and bass lines, iterations over iterations through iterations. I can't quite get the ideas of fractals out of my head, as if you decided to open up the songs and go deeper into them, everything would grow larger and more complex the further you traveled.
While all of the tunes are well conceived, I find Steve Lehman's compositions to be my faves, as they are dub inflected and somewhat trippy. Love the production work as well, great hollow sound to the drums as though they were recorded in a vast room without a ceiling. Top notch work.

Awesome Trio.......2005-11-17

I loved Fieldwork's first album when it came out and this one is just as good if not better. Killer compositions and mind blowing solos. Not for the faint of heart!

NPR on the Money.......2005-11-17

I heard about this group on NPR and decided to check them out. The segment on NPR called them "a power trio for the 21st century" and I think that's pretty much right on the money. A lot of very rhythmic music that feels very futuristic, yet somehow strangely danceable. There's some incredible solos too, but most of the record is more atmospheric and quietly troubling. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the cutting-edge.

A New Sound.......2005-11-17

I usually don't write Amazon reviews, but this album is inspiring in a way that merits special attention. Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, and Elliot Kavee have defined a unique and highly personal approach to collective improvisation, and while this album is challenging in a way that won't be for everyone, the distinctive nature of the music alone deserves 5 stars.

Lack Of Progress.......2005-11-17

If anyone would like my copy of this CD, (barely played!), you're more than welcome to it. It's buried in a shallow grave on the outskirts of town.

Those who cherish the hope that anything noteworthy has happened in jazz since the death of Albert Ayler will have to look elsewhere for evidence. Should you find yourself tempted to purchase Simulated Progress, have your friends lock you in the woodshed until the impulse passes.

This music is to jazz what Cheese-Whiz is to cheese. One is tempted to believe that the lack of structure is an attempt to innovate, however, the net effect is that of incredibly tedious meandering that starts nowhere, ends nowhere, and in between, takes its own sweet time exploring the nooks and crannies of nowhere.

The players, especially pianist Vijay Iyer, are not without talent, which makes matters worse. It's not that they can't play, it's that there's no point to them playing. Iyer seems to have discovered that he can use his left hand to play bass lines, a point he makes with tiresome insistence.

Out of fairness one must note the brave honesty of the CD's title. Unfortunately, I would have preferred actual feeling to simulated progress.

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