Reese and the Smooth Ones

Reese and the Smooth Ones

ASIN: B00006LWQY

Track Listings

1. Face 1: Reese/The Smooth Ones, Pt. 1

2. Face 2: Reese/The Smooth Ones, Pt. 2

Reese and the Smooth Ones,The Art Ensemble of Chicago,Varese Records,Avant-Garde,Avant-Garde Jazz,Free Jazz,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop

Average customer rating:

Improvisational genius

Both the finest and most overlooked Paris recording

Reese and the Smooth Ones
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
General | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00006LWQY
Release Date: 2002-10-22

Tracks:

Face 1: Reese/The Smooth Ones, Pt. 1
Face 2: Reese/The Smooth Ones, Pt. 2

Customer Reviews:

Improvisational genius.......2006-04-06

The Art Ensemble are some of the most versatile, creative, and skilled improvisors in any idiom, and this is one of thier finest displays of on-the-spot brilliance. Whether they're dropping funky melodies, letting reeds careen over immersive percussion, or confronting you with shredding noise guitar (yes, this really happens for a few seconds!), this album is constantly engaging, immediate, and even accessible. Following this extended piece is no problem -- it's much less daunting than, say, a Peter Brotzmann Tentet session, or even a Cecil Taylor composition. Lovers of improv, the jazz avant garde, and vibrant, fun genre-swapping music owe it to themselves to check this out. Some of the Art Ensemble's best early work.

Both the finest and most overlooked Paris recording.......2004-05-27

Fans of the Art Ensemble should not sleep on this. The 41-minute continuous piece "Reese" and "The Smooth Ones" (can't tell where one stops and the other begins) manages the difficult combination of offhand and precise that eluded the Art Ensemble more than half the time on record. The sound is plenty vibrant on the CD version and Malachi Favors plays enough small percussion that drums are not really missed. The saxes of Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman are in particularly fine full cry, never suggesting that the pauses are to cover for lack of new direction to play. Don't let this vanish into the void again.

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Reese & The Smooth Ones
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Manufacturer: Sunspots
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00006BXFS
Release Date: 2002-07-10

Tracks:

Reese / The Smooth Ones Pt.1
Reese / The Smooth Ones Pt.2

Album Description

Originally released on the French BYG Actuel label, this classic album was recorded in Paris in August 1969 while the Art Ensemble was on its initial stay there with just a quartet featuring Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors and Joseph Jarman's 'Reese and the Smooth Ones' is a continuous piece featuring all of the members playing lots of little instruments (horns, gongs, logs, bells, sirens, whistles, steel drums, marimba, banjo and more) in addition to their mainstays. Digitally remastered and limited to 1500 copies. Packaged in a mini-LP sleeve. Sunspots. 2002.

Album Details

Originally Released on the French Byg Actuel Label, this Classic Album was Recorded in Paris in 1969 While the Group was on Its Initial Stay There with Just a Quartet featuring Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors and Joseph Jarman. "Reese and the Smooth Ones" is a Continuous Piece featuring all the Members Playing Lots of Little Instruments (Horns, Gongs, Logs, Bells, Sirens, Whistles, Steel Drums, Marimba, Banjo and More) in Addition to their Regular Instruments.

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