Numbers (Roscoe Mitchell album)

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Numbers
Numbers cover.jpg
Studio album / Live album by
Released2011
RecordedAugust 16, 2002, February 13, 2003, January 10, 2010, February 10, 2010, March 27, 2010 and August 8, 2010,
VenueMills College, Oakland, CA
StudioSystems Two, Brooklyn, NY, Audio for the Arts, Madison, WI and Duderstadt Center Audio Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
GenreJazz
Length65:05
LabelRogueArt
ROG-0036
ProducerMichel Dorbon
Roscoe Mitchell chronology
Far Side
(2007)
Numbers
(2011)
Three Compositions
(2012)

Numbers is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, which was recorded in between 2003 and 2010 and released on the French RogueArt label.[1]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz3/5 stars[2]

All About Jazz', John Sharpe said "Mitchell himself, playing alto saxophone, appears on just one out of 13 tracks, recorded in multiple sessions over an eight year period from 2002. Even though, as Bill Shoemaker points out in his liners, little of the content would seem out of place individually in any Mitchell set list, the act of bringing these pieces together does make for a different experience. There is no indication as to whether the works are entirely through-composed or allow extemporization into their realization, but in spite of their abstraction, the consistent purity of tone and precision of delivery places them firmly in the contemporary new music camp"[2]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell except where noted

  1. "Bells for New Orleans (Prelude)" – 1:33
  2. "9/9/99" – 10:33
  3. "Sketches" – 6:36
  4. "Because It's" (Mitchell, e.e. cummings) – 2:14
  5. "This" (Mitchell, cummings) – 4:30
  6. "Dim" (Mitchell, cummings) – 5:47
  7. "Bells for New Orleans" – 5:01
  8. "WR/C 2A Opus I" – 9:49
  9. "8/8/88 1st Movement" – 4:24
  10. "8/8/88 2nd Movement" – 1:50
  11. "8/8/88 3rd Movement" – 3:33
  12. "9/9/09" – 7:09
  13. "Bells for New Orleans (Postlude)" – 2:11
  • Recorded on February 13, 2003 at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 6) August 16, 2002 at Audio for the Arts, Madison, WI (track 3), February 10, 2010 at the Audio Studio, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (tracks 9, 10 & 11), January 10th 2010 (track 8), March 27, 2010 (tracks 1, 7 & 13) and August 8, 2010 (track 12) at Mills College, Oakland, CA

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Numbers at RogueArt Records, accessed January 5, 2018
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b All About Jazz review, accessed January 5, 2018
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