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  • 8 O'Clock: Two Improvisations

    17505-2

    Artist: Roscoe Mitchell & Thomas Buckner

    Label: Mutable Music

    Mr. Mitchell's innovation as a solo performer, his role in the resurrection of long neglected woodwind instruments of extreme register, and his reassertion of the composer into what has traditionally been an improvisational form have placed him at the forefront fo contemporary music for over thirty years.

    For over thirty years, new music baritone Thomas Buckner has been recognized for his varied accomplishments as a performer, producer, and promoter, of some of the most creative and challenging music of our time. Through his live and recorded work with both established and emerging composers and improvisers, Buckner energetically pursues activity in a wide range of musical contexts; from chamber works and orchestral pieces to jazz-oriented improvisations; from computer enhanced electronic works to multi-media theater pieces, Buckner continues to merge genres and break barriers in his on-going search for the yet-to-be-imagined. He has performed his own concerts, as well as in association with a large number of ensembles, throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

    Review: "Baritone Thomas Buckner and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell have been playing together for many years. The former’s record label, Mutable Music, reissued early in 2001 the two Space LPs they recorded during the early 1980s with Gerald Oshita. It was only fitting that, after this nostalgic step, a new recording would follow to re-inscribe their collaboration in present times. 8 O’Clock: Two Improvisa...