Shadowgraph

by George Lewis

Shadowgraph cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Black Saint
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Trombonist George Lewis explores the intersections of free jazz and contemporary electroacoustic music, enlisting AACM colleagues like Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Davis. The compositions are deeply abstract, utilizing extended techniques and structural ambiguity to blur the lines between structured modern classical music and spontaneous improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, complex, atonal, avant-garde, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Monads
  2. Triple Slow Mix
  3. Cycle
  4. Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet)

Credits

  • George Lewis - primary artist, composed by, tenor trombone, trombone [alto], sousaphone, synthesizer [moog], trombone [tenor], tuba [wagner], tenor trombone, tuba [wagner], sousaphone, performer [sound-tube]
  • Bruno Milano - artwork
  • Abdul Wadud - cello
  • Anthony Davis - piano, piano [right channel]
  • Leroy Jenkins - violin, viola
  • Muhal Richard Abrams - piano [left channel]

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