Benjamin Boone - Caught in the Rhythm - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Without knowing or planning it, saxophonist/composer Benjamin Boone has spent his life preparing for a collaboration with Philip Levine. Long fascinated by the inherent musicality of the spoken word, Boone crossed paths with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet as fellow professors at California State University, Fresno, and they ended up working closely together in the three years before Levine's death in 2015. Boone and Levine's InchThe Poetry of JazzInch captures a genre-expanding partnership unlike anything else in the jazz canon. Produced by piano great Donald Brown, the 14-track project features the compositions of Boone, the poetry of Levine, and a stellar band with special guest appearances by Tom Harrell, Greg Osby, Branford Marsalis and Chris Potter.InchBenjamin Boone knows how to get inside the poem, Phil Levine's inscrutable and imploding loops of poetics, his observations of the seen and unseen. Boone knows where the thing called poetry lives, an ocelot among the waters, a sky-shaped Rain God that flares down upon us. He does this with a myriad of instruments, with human breath chiseling and burning through brass and string, reeds and skin and hands and resin. He is one of the very few that can lure Phil's poetry-magic and call it out and show it to the world, Beyond words, up there with the muses.Inch - U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Album Tracks 1. Gin 2. Making Light of It 3. The Unknowable 4. Yakov 5. They Feed They Lion 6. I Remember Clifford 7. The Music of Time 8. Soloing 9. Arrival 10. A Dozen Dawn Songs, Plus One 11. Our Valley 12. Call It Music 13. By the Waters of the Llobregat 14. What Work Is

... emotionally direct, unpretentious and irascibly open-hearted... - San Francisco Classical Voice. InchJoyInch documents the inspired collaborations saxophonist/composer Benjamin Boone experienced while living in Ghana for a year as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. He performed frequently with Accra-based tenor saxophonist Bernard Ayisa, pianist Victor Dey, Jr., bassist Bright Osei, drummer Frank Kissi and vocalist Sandra Huson, with this set recorded in Boone's final week in country. Bathed in joy, exuberance and dance, the band tackles four Boone originals, Herbie Hancock's InchMaiden Voyage,Inch InchCurtain of LightInch by Ethiopia-based saxophonist Jonovan Cooper, and the title track by the late saxophonist, Gerry Niewood. Following Boone's two previous recordings - critically acclaimed collaborations with U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine - InchJoyInch offers a 'complete body experience,' exploding with movement and fire. Album Tracks 1. The Intricacies of Alice 2. Maiden Voyage 3. Slam 4. Curtain of Light 5. The 233 Jazz Bar 6. Without You 7. Joy

Adding to his inarguably singular and ambitious body of work, the saxophonist, composer and Fulbright Scholar captures a year of study & creation in the Irish city of Limerick with this collection of eight new compositions, along with a captivating reading of the traditional Irish song, InchShe Moved Through the Fair.Inch Surrounded by musicians ready to engage and collaborate, InchConfluenceInch displays a similar dynamism to his Ghana-inspired album InchJoy,Inch or his volumes with multiple highly-accomplished American poets. Solidly reflecting their place, time, and the significant talents involved, they also carry the thread of an artist with an undeniable voice and vision. The searing guitar work of Joe O'Callaghan, the expansive drumming of Joe Daly and the uniquely personal voice of Jane Fraser (aka JaYne) on three songs, are standouts in this engaging and often moving collection. Inch... an artist of the first order... Everywhere his playing is marked by finely judged balance and exquisite melodic colour... Inch - Raul da Gama. Album Tracks 1. On the Banks of the Shannon 2. Confluence 3. Your Eyes Meeting Mine 4. Monkette 5. In the Twilight 6. The Clash of the Ash 7. Another Round at Margaret's 8. Stern Warning 9. She Moved Through the Fair