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Originally a foundational member of the Downtown NY scene now living on the West Coast, bassist Mark Dresser presents an album of inventive and engaging solo bass improvisations, performing on the double bass, and 4 and 5 string basses, on the epic title track accompanying the inspired and depictive words of celebrated late poet and close friend Jerome Rothenberg.
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Mark Dresser-double bass, 4 And 5 string double bass
Jerome Rothenberg-voice, poetry
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UPC: 702397404927
Label: Tzadik
Catalog ID: CD-TZA-4049
Squidco Product Code: 34884
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel
Recorded at Studio A, UC San Diego, California, December 16th, 2020, and April 24th, 2023, by Andrew Munsey.
"Mark Dresser, the world's most acclaimed experimental bassist, who has literally written the book on extended contrabass techniques, presents a fabulous CD of solo bass music. Featuring his dear friend, the honored poet Jerome Rothenberg (then 91 years old) on one long epic track, this project continues a long tradition that goes back to the 1950s jazz-poetry experiments of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Patchen, and Ferlinghetti. Close friends and colleagues for decades, the telepathy between Mark and Jerome is both palpable and inspiring. A classic!"-Tzadik
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Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Mark Dresser Mark Dresser is a Grammy nominated, internationally renowned bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. At the core of his music is an artistic obsession and commitment to expanding the sonic, musical, and expressive possibilities of the contrabass. He has recorded over one hundred thirty CDs including three solo CDs and a DVD. From 1985 to 1994, he was a member of Anthony Braxton's Quartet, which recorded nine CDs and was the subject of Graham Locke's book Forces in Motion (Da Capo). He has also performed and recorded music of Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Dave Douglas, Osvaldo Golijov, Gerry Hemingway, Bob Ostertag, Joe Lovano, Roger Reynolds, Henry Threadgill, Dawn Upshaw, John Zorn. Dresser most recent and internationally acclaimed new music for jazz quintet, Nourishments (2013) his latest CD (Clean Feed) marks his re-immersion as a bandleader. Since 2007 he has been deeply involved in telematic music performance and education. He was awarded a 2015 Shifting Foundation Award and 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. He is Professor of Music at University of California, San Diego. ^ Hide Bio for Mark Dresser • Show Bio for Jerome Rothenberg "Jerome Rothenberg's complex and singular poetic voice has emerged in more than seventy volumes of poetry, prose and innovative translation over the past half-century. Within the self-fashioned realm of ethnopoetics, he negotiates the perils and problematics of his identities as man, Jew, artist, displaced person, observer and participant in society. Determined to mine and discover what is dismissed or ignored by mainstream writing, he also exhibits an interest in non-traditional poetics, working with photography and visual languages to explore the relation of the seen to the spoken. Kenneth Rexroth once credited Jerome Rothenberg with having "returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature," adding that "No one has dug deeper into the roots of poetry." Indeed, Rothenberg's poems reach into the reader to carve out dense litanies on the horrors of history and modern civilization, the small salvations of daily life, and a sense of fright and amazement surrounding the human form. Jerome Rothenberg's complex and singular poetic voice has emerged over the past half-century in more than seventy books - including the poet's own words, innovative translations from the German and other languages, and momentous poetic compilations-such as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and A Big Jewish Book-which scholars hesitate even to confine by the term anthology. Rothenberg first published his poetry-as well as that of others, including Armand Schwerner and Diane Wakoski-with Hawk's Well Press, the house he founded in 1958. He has been an active voice in progressive poetry, notably culling and processing his vital avant-garde influences in the 1983 volume That Dada Strain. His works have variously been celebrated and expanded in musical and theatrical stagings. Over the course of his career, Rothenberg has been the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Book Award, and two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards. He currently resides in California." ^ Hide Bio for Jerome Rothenberg
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Track Listing:
1. Invocation For Lelio 6:56
2. In The Shadow Of A Mad King 21:52
3. Tineacious 6:47
4. Nonce 6:42
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