Yuma Uesaka & Marilyn Crispell - Streams (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Among the many lauded recordings Marilyn Crispell has made as a leader and collaborator over the years are albums with iconic reed players from Anthony Braxton and Joseph Jarman to Tim Berne and Joe Lovano. Now she has teamed with Yuma Uesaka, a rising talent among multi-reed performers. Their searching new duo album Streams – featuring a mix of free improvisations and Uesaka’s poetic compositions – will be released collaboratively via Not Two Records and Polyfold Music on October 15, 2021, digitally and on CD. Crispell has produced a series of beloved albums for ECM in recent decades, including Nothing Ever Was, Anyway, a classic that DownBeat called “one of the loveliest records of piano music ever released on ECM… stunningly played.” The New York City-based Uesaka – who plays tenor saxophone and B-flat and contra-alto clarinets on Streams – made his mark in 2015 with a debut solo EP, Spear and Shield, which was singled out by Bird Is the Worm for its blend of “power” and “lyricism.” Next, Uesaka’s album with new trio Ocelot earned praise on both sides of the Atlantic, from WBGO to The Wire, along with being featured as one of spring 2021’s Best Jazz Albums by Bandcamp. For her part, Crispell says: “Yuma is special, I think, and we connected musically, intellectually and spiritually. Playing duo creates the possibility for an intimate and very exposed kind of communication. There is no one and nothing to hide behind, so it’s both challenging and exciting.”

Tracklist:
1. Meditation (02:47)
2. Iterations I (06:17)
3. Streams (11:09)
4. Capillarity (07:58)
5. Torrent (03:52)
6. Ma / Space (08:59)


Thanks to the Original customer!