''No Side Effects'' is a double album by American jazz saxophonist

Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' described him as "one of the key figure ...

which was released in 2006 on the French RogueArt label. He leads a trio with Harrison Bankead on bass and cello and Vincent Davis on drums.

Reception

In his review for

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, Alain Drouot states "Mitchell achieves a fine equilibrium between introspection, angularity, and intensity... The performance has a timeless quality since Mitchell only tries to fulfill his artistic mission, makes no concession to trends, and refuses to compromise with his ideas." The

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review by Marc Medwin says "Mitchell's recordings can elicit a deeply intuitive but ultimately inexplicable sense of unification in the face of superficial diversity, and this newest double disc is no exception."Medwin, Marc
''No Side Effects'' review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell'' ''Disc One: No Side Effects'' # "Poem" - 6:23 # "Flash" - 5:24 # "From Red to Rusk" - 4:48 # "Broken Pictures" - 4:23 # "Shake-up" - 8:10 # "Trio Four" - 4:36 # "No Side Effects" - 3:12 # "Frame Three" - 6:30 # "Shag Bark Hickory" - 2:25 # "Let's See" - 3:57 # "Ruddy" - 4:20 # "Vermillon" - 4:12 # "When the Winds Blow" - 6:11 ''Disc Two: Frames'' # "Parched Plain" - 13:38 # "Shore Line" - 5:22 # "An Afternoon Walk" - 6:02 # "Enfold" - 6:56 # "Frame Two" - 2:51 # "They Danced" - 3:35 # "Ride" - 3:41 # "Here We Go" - 3:39 # "Rolling" - 6:15 # "Yellow Night" - 6:41 # "Sway" - 2:53

Personnel

- soprano sax,

alto sax The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E, smaller th ...

tenor sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

, bass sax,

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

piccolo The piccolo ( ; ) is a smaller version of the western concert flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute, the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Harrison Bankhead –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

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 ...

* Vincent Davis –

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 ...

, percussion

References

{{Authority control 2006 albums Roscoe Mitchell albums RogueArt albums