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Concertos for Saxophone Quartet
by William Bolcom and Steven Mackey
PRISM Quartet/Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gill Rose, conductor
innova 731
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Perennial champions of new music, the PRISM Quartet joins forces with Maestro Gil Rose and the ever-adventurous Boston Modern Orchestra Project in a stunning recording of concertos for saxophone quartet by William Bolcom and Steven Mackey, composers whose concert music draws collectively from rock, jazz, blues, folk, and ragtime music, and more.

Pitch Black
Music for Saxophones by Jacob TV
innova 693
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The PRISM Quartet celebrates Dutch "avant pop" composer JacobTV (a.k.a. Jacob Ter Veldhuis, b. 1951) on this acclaimed Innova disc. Scored for saxophone and ghettoblaster, the music on "Pitch Black" features spoken word by jazz icons Billie Holiday and Chet Baker, death row inmates, and religious fanatics in Times Square. TV started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music at the Groningen Conservatoire, where he was awarded the Dutch Composition Prize in 1980. Preoccupied with American media and apocalyptic moralism, he makes superb use of electronics in compositions that combine explosive strength and raw energy with intricate architectural design.

Music for Saxophones
by William Albright
Innova Recordings #687
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The PRISM Quartet pays homage to William Albright (1944-1998) in their latest innova release. This remarkable disc of Albright’s principal works for saxophone offers powerful testimony to the full range of his personality and his fascination with the expressive power of the instrument.

with:
Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet
Marilyn Nonken, piano
Matthew Herskowitz, piano
University of Michigan Symphony Band
H. Robert Reynolds, conductor

 

Real Standard Time
Innova Recordings #515
Jazz compositions by PRISM members Matthew Levy and Tim Ries.
With: John Riley, drums; Larry Goldings, organ; Ben Monder, guitar; Bob Ward, guitar; Franck Amsallem, piano; Tony Scherr, bass, Johannes Weidenmuller, bass; Eric Halverson, drums; Matt Wilson, drums.

To order, visit: Tower Records | CDNOW (purchase individual tracks for Liquid Audio) | CDeMusic or 888-749-9998

Listen to audio samples from Real Standard Time (mp3 for broadband or RealAudio for dial-up) :

Three mp3::RA | Your Gentle Heart mp3::RA | St. Michel mp3::RA | Planet X (from Real Standard Time) mp3::RA | Irregular Regularity mp3::RA | Hart's Beat mp3::RA | Blues for Mae mp3::RA | Her August Touch mp3::RA

All About Jazz review

The PRISM Quartet
Koch International Classics #3-7024-2
Works by Pierre Max Dubois, Jean Baptiste Singelee, Matthew Levy, Phil Woods, and Russell Peck.

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