''Camera'' is an album by American jazz guitarist
Joe Morris, which was recorded in 2010 and released on the
ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York–based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.
History
Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), E ...
label. He leads a quartet with long-time collaborator Luther Gray on drums and a string section composed of Katt Hernandez on violin and Junko Fujiwara Simons on cello.
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at ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York–based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.
History
Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), E ...
Reception
In his review for
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...
, Alex Henderson states "''Camera'' has a bit of Euro-classical appeal, but there is no overlooking the fact that this is edgy, free jazz. Morris thrives on the abstract, and he thrives on a stream of consciousness approach. But for all its intellect, ''Camera'' also has a great deal of passion."
Track listing
:''All compositions by Joe Morris''
# "Person in a Place" – 9:39
# "Street Scene" – 7:29
# "Angle of Incidence" – 6:45
# "Evocative Shadow" – 8:05
# "Patterns on Faces" – 8:48
# "Reflected Object" – 9:43
Personnel
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Joe Morris -
guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
* Luther Gray –
drums
The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
* Katt Hernandez –
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
* Junko Fujiwara Simons –
cello
The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...
References
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2010 albums
Joe Morris (guitarist) albums
ESP-Disk albums