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Whit Dickey Quartet - Astral Long Form: Staircase In Space - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Drummer-percussionist Whit Dickey channels ecstatic cosmic vibration together with a stellar quartet on Astral Long Form Staircase In Space, his enrapturing second album as leader for TAO Forms. The album also features alto saxophonist Rob Brown, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Brandon Lopez.InchThe interaction between players is perfect. Entrances, exits, the space between sound and silence, all meeting at the right moment. This is great human music that will stand up to any dark forces in any universe.Inch -William Parker, in his liner notes for this album.Since his launch of the TAO Forms tag in 2020, Whit Dickey has curated a remarkable series of releases showcasing some of the most astonishing voices in modern jazz & creative music. Among them was James Brandon Lewis' Jesup Wagon which topped several year-end 'Best of 2021' lists, including #1 in JazzTimes Critics' Poll and the coveted top spot in the 2021 international Jazz Critics Poll established by Francis Davis.TAO Forms has also provided an outlet for Dickey's own work - first with 2020's breathtaking trio date, Expanding Light, featuring his 30+ year colleague, maestro alto saxophonist Rob Brown, and young firebrand bassist Brandon Lopez. That trio returns in quartet here - joined by violist Mat Maneri, another virtuoso with whom Dickey shares a long history. It is without doubt one of the drummer's most adventurous & fully realized works to date. These five conceptually interwoven pieces as performed by this intuitive new quartet may well come to be considered his masterwork - one of them, at least.There is a sustained, enrapturing mode that unites it's five parts. In keeping with the drummer's yin/yang view of musical balance - exemplified not only by the name of the tag, but in the duality of his previous quartet , Peace Planet / Box of Light, this album opens immediately into a heretofore under-explor

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    Drummer-percussionist Whit Dickey channels ecstatic cosmic vibration together with a stellar quartet on Astral Long Form Staircase In Space, his enrapturing second album as leader for TAO Forms. The album also features alto saxophonist Rob Brown, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Brandon Lopez.InchThe interaction between players is perfect. Entrances, exits, the space between sound and silence, all meeting at the right moment. This is great human music that will stand up to any dark forces in any universe.Inch -William Parker, in his liner notes for this album.Since his launch of the TAO Forms tag in 2020, Whit Dickey has curated a remarkable series of releases showcasing some of the most astonishing voices in modern jazz & creative music. Among them was James Brandon Lewis' Jesup Wagon which topped several year-end 'Best of 2021' lists, including #1 in JazzTimes Critics' Poll and the coveted top spot in the 2021 international Jazz Critics Poll established by Francis Davis.TAO Forms has also provided an outlet for Dickey's own work - first with 2020's breathtaking trio date, Expanding Light, featuring his 30+ year colleague, maestro alto saxophonist Rob Brown, and young firebrand bassist Brandon Lopez. That trio returns in quartet here - joined by violist Mat Maneri, another virtuoso with whom Dickey shares a long history. It is without doubt one of the drummer's most adventurous & fully realized works to date. These five conceptually interwoven pieces as performed by this intuitive new quartet may well come to be considered his masterwork - one of them, at least.There is a sustained, enrapturing mode that unites it's five parts. In keeping with the drummer's yin/yang view of musical balance - exemplified not only by the name of the tag, but in the duality of his previous quartet , Peace Planet / Box of Light, this album opens immediately into a heretofore under-explor
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    Whit Dickey Quartet
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    Astral Long Form: Staircase In Space
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    CD
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    Tao Forms
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