''Remember Now'' is an album by American jazz trombonist

Steve Swell Steve Swell (born December 6, 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American free jazz trombonist, composer, and educator. Music career Swell studied at Jersey City State Teachers College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his m ...

, which was recorded in 2005 and released on the Polish Not Two label. It was the second release by Slammin' the Infinite, a quartet with

Sabir Mateen Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily avant-garde jazz. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute. As a young man, Mateen was origi ...

on reeds, Matthew Heyner on bass and Klaus Kugel on drums.''Remember Now''
at Not Two

Reception

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'' states "'MB-1 (for Marion Brown)' is superb, but there are too many moments when the music descends into noisy jostling." In a double review for

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Robert Iannapollo says "Rather than two front line soloists with a rhythm section, on this release they seem like a group of four equals. The rhythm section has really developed into a team that is just as able to step out in front and lead the band as to drive it along from behind."Iannapollo, Robert
''Remember Now'' review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Steve Swell'' #"Antlers" - 3:04 #"MB-1 (for Marion Brown)" - 9:21 #"Patient Explorer" - 6:33 #"Grow Your Own" - 4:27 #"We Interrupt This Channel" - 10:51 #"Remember Now" - 7:46 #"Different Degrees" - 7:05 #"Stride Right" - 5:45

Personnel

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

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 ...

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

alto clarinet The alto clarinet is a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family. It is a transposing instrument pitched in the key of E, though instruments in F have been made. In size it lies between the soprano clarinet and the bass clarinet. It bears a gr ...

*Matthew Heyner -

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 ...

*Klaus Kugel -

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 ...

References

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