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Fanfares For The Noh Age

by Free Jazz Posse

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1.
Yer Fly's Wide Open 03:36
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2.
Midnight In The Garden 05:42
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3.
Noh 01:59
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4.
Trans 03:32
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5.
Requiem 06:43
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6.
Move 1 00:42
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7.
Passages 06:18
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8.
Downstreet Serenade 04:23
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9.
Move 2 00:29
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10.
Nothing Holding Up The Sky 04:15
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11.
Coriolis 04:28
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12.
Current Again 07:55
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Upbeat high energy free jazz improvisations: Fanfares for the Noh Age is a free jazz suite for wind ensemble and guitar. The emphasis is strongly on collective improvisation with very little isolated soloing. The tunes range from the jazzy & lightly humorous (Yer Fly's Wide Open...) to the introspective (Requiem) from the lyric (Current Again) to the volcanic (Noh).




"(Free Jazz Posse) gambles on music that is honest, direct and most of all, highly creative…When the band slows down their break-neck pacing for a few minutes, they begin to resemble a contemporary new music ensemble. Forget about tempos, charts or written music, this is some serious, fully improvised music from the get-go. The knack that each of these seven members possesses is a set of keen ears that closely listens to what the others are playing. The fervor, the drive and the passion is heard from beginning to the record's end. In chaos, there is light. Structure comes to life when you least expect it. Free Jazz Posse holds the key to this multi-faceted world."
--Tom Sekowski, The Live Music Report, May, 2008


Zelenka and Stone are two members of this extraordinary septet, which also includes Jeremy Melsha (trombone), Derek Leu (guitar), Aaron Smith (soprano clarinet), Ajay Khanna (Eb clarinet) and Mike Fitzgerald (trumpet). Now, to give you a vague idea of how this work sounds like, forget the band's name and think instead to an expanded version of ROVA, featuring the accompaniment – and several more independent incursions – of an electric guitar, and the sometimes outlandish yet ever clever insertion of brass inside the general structure. Exactly as I said for Premonitions, we're in presence of improvisation of the finest calibre, the kind of stuff whose clarity-in-chaos articulation level is so high that many of these enthusiastic bursts really sound composed. The performers push their own vision forward determinedly as if ostracized by the establishment, trying to persuade us about the utter artistic validity of the concept. They fill the air with notes, but saturation is not reached; the geometries can be fractured, or entirely delineated. Every move appears well-considered, the sense of liberation perceived throughout regulated by the awareness of the necessary room for each player to express a diverse mental picture. A collective texture designed by distinctive entities, exhilarating music for splitting the brain into seven imaginary scores to follow. All of this leads to sincere esteem on this side of the speakers."
--Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes, February 23, 2011

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released January 1, 2006

Dave Stone: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
Jay Zelenka: alto saxophone, flutes
Jeremy Melsha: trombone
Derek Leu: electric guitar
Aaron Smith: soprano clarinet (on 2-5,7-9,11,12)
Ajay Khanna: E-flat clarinet (on 1,2,7,10,12)
Mike Fitzgerald: trumpet (on 2,3,5,8)

Recorded Spring 1998
Recording and mix: Jay Zelenka
Cover art: H. Annie Ortbals
Design: Tony Patti
Produced by: Jay Zelenka/Freedonia Music

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Freedonia Music was born in 2006 to promote Creative Improvised Music.
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