CATALOGUE

 

RETURN

Chris Speed
Yeah No
(SGL 1517-2)

Tenor sax/clarinettist co-leads Human Feel and is a member of Tim Berne's Bloodcount and Myra Melford's The Same River, Twice. His debut CD explores his jazz, contemporary classical and Balkan-inspired compositions with a subtle, simmering kind of freedom. With Cuong Vu (trumpet), Skuli Sverrisson (electric bass) and Jim Black (drums). Writers choice 1997, Steve Vickery, Coda.

"With equal parts rhapsodic lyricism, compositional integrity, and freak-jazz freedom Speed's quartet delivers invigorating new music which hints at the shape of jazz to come."
—Trey Hatch, The Stranger

“Speed's music spreads and swirls like kyrilloscopic screens into novel textures, tones, and spaces.”
—Fred Bouchard, CD Review

  1. Scribble Bliss
  2. The Dream and Memory Store
  3. Merge
  4. Nap Clarity
  5. Planing
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