Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance - Synovial Joints (2015)

Pi Recordings: Pi57
http://www.pirecordings.com/album/pi57



* Steve Coleman : alto saxophone
* Jonathan Finlayson : trumpet
* Maria Grand : tenor saxophone, cowbell (tracks 2-6, 8-10)
* Barry Crawford : piccolo, flute
* Rane Moore : clarinet, bass clarinet
* Jeff Missal : piccolo trumpet, trumpet (except track 9)
* Tim Albright : trombone (tracks 1, 2, 7-10)
* David Nelson : bass trombone (tracks 3-6)
* Kristin Lee : violin
* Chris Otto : viola
* Jay Campbell : cello
* Greg Chudzik : contrabass (except track 9)
* David Bryant : piano
* Miles Okazaki : guitar (except track 7)
* Anthony Tidd : bass (tracks 8, 9)
* Alex Lipowski : timpani, xylophone, triangle, gongs
* Nei Sacramento : congas, talking drum, berimbau (tracks 1, 2, 8, 9)
* Ramón García Pérez : congas (tracks 8, 9)
* Mauricio Hererra : bongos (tracks 7, 8 9)
* Jen Shyu : vocals (tracks 1, 2)
* Marcus Gilmore : drums

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Recorded by Joe Marciano and Max Ross at Systems Two Recording Studios,
Brooklyn, NY, on October 11-13, 2014.

Reviews

By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/14/steve-coleman-council-of-balance-synovial-joints-review

American saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman’s Functional Arrhythmias album
had an untypical mellowness for this uncompromising artist, and this one takes
that musical cordiality even further. Coleman’s decades-long mission has been
to integrate mathematical regularities found in nature, astronomy and
philosophy into improv music, and this expansion of his Five Elements band to a
21-piece – adding jazz, Latin and contemporary-classical musicians – is his
most ambitious yet open-handed tilt at it. Lean, pithy themes still snap and
swerve in Coleman’s signature manner, but the blend of elegant cello undertows
and cool alto-sax melody on Acupuncture Openings, the warm trombone and string
sounds on Celtic Cells, and the title suite’s tuba hooks and Afro-Cuban
percussion are unexpectedly and consistently entrancing. Sometimes it sounds
like an early New Orleans jazz band playing a film noir soundtrack with dashes
of free-improv and salsa; in any case, Coleman’s rigour as a composer and
improviser governs all of it.

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By Karl Ackermann
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/synovial-joints-steve-coleman-pi-recordings-review-by-karl-ackermann.php

By Hrayr Attarian
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/synovial-joints-steve-coleman-pi-recordings-review-by-hrayr-attarian.php

By Tim Niland
http://www.jazzandblues.blogspot.com/2015/05/steve-coleman-and-council-of-balance.html

By Doug Simpson
http://audaud.com/2015/05/steve-coleman-and-the-council-of-balance-synovial-joints-tracklist-follows-pi-recordings/

By Will Layman
http://www.popmatters.com/column/194393-steve-coleman-analogies-in-various-places/

By Richard B. Kamins
http://www.steptempest.blogspot.com/2015/05/connected-by-rhythm.html

By Tomáš S. Polívka (cz)
http://www.rozhlas.cz/jazz/album/_zprava/steve-coleman-the-council-of-balance-synovial-joints--1504239

By Jan Granlie (no)
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/steve-coleman-and-the-council-of-balance/

Da Luca Canini (it)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/synovial-joints-steve-coleman-pi-recordings-review-by-luca-canini.php

Da Roberto Dell'Ava (it)
http://www.traccedijazz.it/index.php/recensioni/1046-steve-coleman-synovial-joints

Por João Santos (pt)
http://www.cuicadodecafonica.blogspot.com/2015/07/steve-coleman-and-council-of-balance.html

Par Pierre Dulieu et Albert Maurice Drion (fr)
http://www.dragonjazz.com/news/news18.htm

Por Sergio Piccirilli (es)
http://elintruso.com/2015/05/03/steve-coleman-and-the-council-of-balance-synovial-joints/