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clutnuckle · 12-07-2010, 02:24 PM

Masayuki Takayanagi - Free Form Suite

I was told that this was predominantly free jazz/improv... Which is very, very confusing. The first two songs lack a very distinct 'free improvisation' touch to them. In fact, they're just straight-up great jazzy-blues standard-esque pieces that come across as original, uncompromising recordings. The next four pieces (technically it's only two pieces, but my version has the suite split into three parts) begin to gradually grow more and more original, psychotic and surprising, until you finally arrive at the last part of the suite, which is just a mind****. Not completely dense and impenetrable, mind you, but it's a mind****. I'm tempted to say it's more modal than it is free, but it's great either way. A successful bridge of the two different faces of jazz.

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clutnuckle Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: -_-_-_-_~__~-~_-`_`-~_-`-~-~ Posts: 1,276	Masayuki Takayanagi - Free Form Suite I was told that this was predominantly free jazz/improv... Which is very, very confusing. The first two songs lack a very distinct 'free improvisation' touch to them. In fact, they're just straight-up great jazzy-blues standard-esque pieces that come across as original, uncompromising recordings. The next four pieces (technically it's only two pieces, but my version has the suite split into three parts) begin to gradually grow more and more original, psychotic and surprising, until you finally arrive at the last part of the suite, which is just a mind**. Not completely dense and impenetrable, mind you, but it's a mind**. I'm tempted to say it's more modal than it is free, but it's great either way. A successful bridge of the two different faces of jazz.