William Hooker - Flesh and Bones - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

William Hooker is a musician, composer, and poet with over 70 recordings as a leader, encompassing jazz, new music, experimental music and multi-disciplinary forms of expression (e.g. dance, silent film and spoken word). He has been recognized [by The Wire] as Inchan iconoclast, and one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation,Inch which is evident nowhere more than on his latest album. Hooker says of the work, which features collaborators Matt Lavelle, Sarah Manning, On Davis, and Adam Lane, Inchour express purpose was to play great music and to communicate such.Inch The group - captured live in 2023 at acclaimed Brooklyn performance arts venue Roulette - does just that, and the result is pure Jubilation (noun; a feeling of great happiness and triumph).The marks Hooker's fourth outing for Org Music, following Flesh and Bones (2023), Big Moon (2021), and Symphonie of Flowers (2019).

Over 30 releases and 44 years into his career as a jazz drummer and composer, William Hooker has made (arguably) his best album yet during the pandemic in 2020, a follow up to his critically acclaimed 2019 album InchSymphonie of FlowersInch. Clocking in at 83 minutes in total (depending on the you're listening to), InchBig MoonInch is as expansive as it is groundbreaking. With a reputation as one of the most innovative composers and drummers of his generation, for those in the know, Hooker does not disappoint on this latest work. Supported by a dynamic group of players which varies throughout the piece, Hooker weaves elements of spiritual and avant-garde jazz with tropical rhythms through eleven movements of the meditative journey that is InchBig MoonInch; a work that should be ingested and contemplated as one body of work.

William Hooker has been recognized as one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation, leading a variety of ensembles within the worlds of free jazz, experimental, and new music. Hooker's prior collaborators range from avant garde jazz musicians to indie rock legends like Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. On his latest work, InchSymphonie of FlowersInch, Hooker weaves three sections into a whole, or a InchsymphonieInch of sorts. As he says, Inchthe piece begins and ends with the drum... my instrument. It's rhythm and variations of timbre are the stabilizing element.Inch