Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The News (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Andrew Cyrille Quartet - The News (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The News (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:55 minutes | 891 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

The new album from the quartet led by one of jazz’s innovators, drummer Andrew Cyrille, carries the story forward from the 2016 release The Declaration of Musical Independence, a recording which Down Beat hailed as “an unabashed exploration into time, pulse space and atmosphere…ambitious yet simple, rich yet stripped-down, challenging yet infinitely satisfying.” Bill Frisell and Ben Street remain from the Declaration line-up with David Virelles taking the piano role. Each of the players has space for improvisational expression – and Frisell and Virelles also contribute material – but it is Cyrille’s communicative sensibility and what the New York Times called his “watchful, flowing pulse” that guides the band.
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Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The Declaration Of Musical Independence (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Andrew Cyrille Quartet - The Declaration Of Musical Independence (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The Declaration Of Musical Independence (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:36 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM

The great avant-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille whose associations have ranged from a long, vintage collaboration with Cecil Taylor to co-leading current all-star collective Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman makes his ECM debut as bandleader on The Declaration Of Musical Independence and what a band it is! Guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboardist Richard Teitelbaum and double bassist Ben Street are perfectly in synch with Cyrille throughout this set that opens with a Coltrane cover (Coltrane Time) but is otherwise all-original, including three pieces composed by the entire quartet in the studio.
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