Alexander Hawkins - Iron Into Wind - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Alexander Hawkins is a creative epicentre from the London jazz scene and is regarded in the UK as one of the most innovative musicians of the younger generation with a surprising radius of action. He plays with Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, Taylor Ho Bynum, Louis Moholo, Shabaka Hutchings and Elaine Mitchener. 'Iron into Wind' is the name of his new piano solo. The phrase InchIron into WindInch evokes for him both the transience of improvisation and a fascination with solid material, represented by the powerful blocks of sound to be heard in several of these pieces. Richard Willimas writes in the liner notes InchThe mood varies from the two-handed avant-gospel figurations of InchCongregationalInch to the hurtling InchÉtudeInch via the austere ruminations of InchTumble MonoInch, the knotted blues of InchStrange CourageInch and the explosive accelerations of InchIt Should Be a SongInch, with a diversion, in InchPleasant ConstellationInch, by way of variations on an element from Sun Ra's InchFate in a Pleasant MoodInch. What he achieves here is a fine balance of all his interests, creating a self-portrait of a wonderfully inventive modern musician.Inch Album Tracks 1. Song All the Way 2. Congregational 3. Tough Like Imagination 4. Pleasant Constellation 5. Gossamer Like a Ghost Tree 6. Strange Courage 7. It Should Be a Song 8. Hard As Threads 9. Tumble Mono 10. Wander/Wonder 11. We All Bleed 12. Etude