Approximately

by Guillermo Gregorio

Approximately cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Hat Hut
  • Country: Argentina
  • Length: 54:44
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Argentine clarinetist bridges severe European modernism with deeply structured jazz improvisation on this highly acclaimed release. The compositions navigate extremely quiet, tension-filled acoustic interplay, focusing heavily on minimalist atonality and the deliberate use of silence.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, acoustic, atonal, technical, melodic, minimalistic, chamber, avant-garde, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Approximately (5:00)
  2. Two Ambiguities (4:49)
  3. Aural (6:12)
  4. In Absentia (1:23)
  5. Caution (5:46)
  6. The Other Notes (1:09)
  7. Four Shapes on Yellow Paper (3:15)
  8. The Cloud (5:36)
  9. Equilibrium (1:53)
  10. Cambridge Excavation (5:03)
  11. Some Reflections on "Marionette" - Arr. Guillermo Gregorio (5:48)
  12. The Other Side of the Charles (3:02)
  13. Kromos #2 (4:14)
  14. Composition with Gray & Blue (1:33)

Credits

  • Eric Pakula - alto saxophone, composed by [collective creation], tenor saxophone
  • John Lockwood - bass, composed by [collective creation]
  • Pandelis Karayorgis - composed by [collective creation], piano
  • Billy Bauer - composed by

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