Ode to the Death of Jazz

by Edward Vesala

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1990
  • Label: ECM Records
  • Country: Finland
  • Length: 56:27
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring the Finnish drummer's sprawling Sound & Fury ensemble, this provocatively titled release is a wildly ambitious blend of European free improvisation and structured orchestral drama. The massive, brass-heavy compositions shift unpredictably between darkly cinematic dirges and ferocious, avant-garde cacophony.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, experimental, avant-garde, progressive, fusion

Tracklist

  1. Sylvan Swizzle (8:36)
  2. Infinite Express (7:57)
  3. Time To Think (7:38)
  4. Winds Of Sahara (4:22)
  5. Watching For The Signal (8:17)
  6. A Glimmer Of Sepal (5:29)
  7. Mop Mop (5:41)
  8. What? Where? Hum Hum (8:24)

Credits

  • Taito Vainio - accordion
  • Jorma Tapio - alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
  • Ulf Krokfors - bass
  • Timothy Ferchen - marimba, tubular bells
  • Iro Haarla - piano, harp, keyboards
  • Pepa P盲ivinen - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Jouni Kannisto - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Matti Riikonen - trumpet

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