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Empathetic Parts
''Empathetic Parts'' is a live album by Mike Reed (musician), Mike Reed's Loose Assembly. The group's third release, it was recorded on November 7, 2009, at the Umbrella Music Festival held at The Hideout Inn, The Hideout in Chicago, and was issued on CD in 2010 by 482 Music. Led by drummer Reed, the group features saxophonist Greg Ward, cellist Tomeka Reid, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, and double bassist Joshua Abrams (musician), Joshua Abrams, plus guest saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell. The album consists of two tracks. The 33-minute title track is based on the notion of what Reed calls "collective arranging," "an approach in which the structural development, harmony, and shape of a piece of particular music was created spontaneously by the entire band." "I'll Be Right Here Waiting" is a composition by Steve McCall (drummer), Steve McCall that initially appeared on the 1978 album ''Air Time'' by the collective free jazz trio Air (free jazz trio), Air. Reception In a review for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Reed (musician)
Mike Reed (born May 26, 1974) is an Americans, American jazz drummer, bandleader, composer and music presenter. Career Reed was born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1974, but raised in Evanston, Illinois north of Chicago. He returned to Chicago in the 1990s after majoring in English and psychology at the University of Dayton in Ohio. He played with David Boykin Expanse, Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, and the Josh Berman Quartet. He leads the quintet Loose Assembly and the quartet People, Places & Things, with whom he recorded several albums on the 482 Music label. In 2000 he and cornetist Josh Berman started the Sunday Transmission music series at the Hungry Brain bar in Chicago in 2000. He helped start Downtown Sound music series, a free weekly concert program in Chicago's Millennium Park that has included indie rock, world music, and contemporary soul music, soul. He is a founding director of the Pitchfork Music Festival and joined the committee that programs the annual Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |