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Mike Reed's Loose Assembly
Last Year's Ghost
Genre: Jazz

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Flowers
2. Day of the Dead
3. Old Souls
4. Afterthoughts
5. 1974
6. The Entire State of Florida
7. Exorcism
8. Simone's Crumbs
9. Temporary States
10. Ghost Writer
11. Dreaming with Jill

CD Details

All Artists: Mike Reed's Loose Assembly
Title: Last Year's Ghost
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: 482 Music
Original Release Date: 4/24/2007
Release Date: 4/24/2007
Genre: Jazz
Style: Avant Garde & Free Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 650594105522, 650594105225

Synopsis

Product Description

Called "one of Chicago's most sublime Jazz outfits" by Time Out Chicago, Loose Assembly features alto saxophonist Greg Ward, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, cellist Tomeka Reid and bassist Josh Abrams. Last Year's Ghost documents aural poems Reed created based on the compositional ideas and freeform playing of his band mates, linked by the common theme of what he calls "the traces of people and places past."

CD Reviews

Light yet tasty

Nicholas Lake | Dubai, n/a United Arab Emirates | 04/11/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a wonderful, very idiosyncratic album, starting with the unusual instrumental lineup - percussion, vibes, bass, cello & sax, with the sax not in any way overwhelming the other instruments, even in the (mainly short & succinct) group improvisation sections - the feel is light, almost airy, without falling into the kind of ethereal plinky-plonk that has me craving a blast of Albert Ayler. Three gorgeous tunes (especially "Day of the Dead") provide a kind of overall structure ... cop a listen."