Organic Resonance

Organic Resonance
Live album by
Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton
Released2003
RecordedApril 5, 2003
VenueTonic, New York City
GenreJazz
Length53:16
LabelPi Recordings
ProducerWadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Luminous Axis
(2002) 		Organic Resonance
(2003) 		Kabell Years: 1971-1979
(2004)
Anthony Braxton chronology
Solo (NYC) 2002
(2003) 		Organic Resonance
(2003) 		Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
(2004)

Organic Resonance is a live album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and reedist Anthony Braxton, which was recorded live at New York's Tonic club in 2003 and released on Pi Recordings.[1] It was their first full duo recording.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "Widely admired on first release, these are curiously disappointing sets that never seem to find the two players on common ground."[3]

In a double review for JazzTimes Duck Baker notes that "There is enormous variety of feeling and approach not just from track to track but within each performance, though describing these things is challenging."[4]

The BBC review by Peter Marsh says "Organic Resonance is stripped, spare stuff from just a trumpet and saxophone. It's possible to follow the compositional threads and really immerse yourself in the improvised dialogues; sometimes knotty, sometimes tender, sometimes furiously abstract."[5]

Track listing

  1. "Tawaf (Cycles 1-7)" (Wadada Leo Smith) - 11:45
  2. "Composition No. 314" (Anthony Braxton) - 15:15
  3. "Composition No. 315" (Anthony Braxton) - 16:39
  4. "A Celestial Bow, Stone Rivers and Silver Stars Overlayed in Red" (Wadada Leo Smith) - 9:37

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. ^ Organic Resonance at Pi Recordings
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 1211. ISBN 0141023279.
  4. ^ Baker, Duck. Organic Resonance review at JazzTimes
  5. ^ Marsh, Peter. Organic Resonance review at BBC