Title - Seeing Sounds
Artist - Willy Rodriguez
Drummer-composer Willy Rodriguez proudly announces the release of his debut album Seeing Sounds. Joining the Puerto Rico-born, New York based musician on his expansive debut is trumpeter Jason Palmer, saxophonist Hery Paz, pianist Leo Genovese, bassists John Hébert and Kenneth Jimenez, and special guest artist, saxophonist Dave Liebman, and sound designer Tehn Vega.
Avant-garde philosophies provide precarious but often brilliant edges to how open or free improvisation function in Jazz. Complex, chaotic, and often dissonant, this sub-genre challenges traditional structures, and when transcendent, incorporates an advanced and unconventional level of mastery.
In this regard, drummer Willy Rodriguez has spent his entire professional career preparing to explore these unique types of musical relationships.
1.
Beyond The Struggle
2.
Roy’s Master Plan
3.
Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way
4.
Guani (feat. Dave Liebman)
5.
Fixed Goal
6.
Waltz Dilemma
7.
The Infinity Of Your Love (feat. Dave Liebman)
8.
The Red-tailed Hawk is going to Eat Your Babies (feat. Tehn Vega)
9.
Un Pequeño Desahogo
10.
Self Love
11.
Praise (for Ralph Peterson & Bob Gulloti)
On an album where listening deeply allows for the gentle displacement of artifice, ego and traditional expectations, it opens on the atmospheric Beyond The Struggle and the gently fervent Roy’s Master Plan and then comes the wondrous gossamer within Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way, the flirtatious Guani (featuring Dave Liebman), and then we get the drum-tastic Fixed Goal.
Along next is the upright bass-led Waltz Dilemma and a yearning ache within The Infinity Of Your Love (featuring Dave Liebman), and they are in turn backed by the flickering beauty found within The Red-tailed Hawk is going to Eat Your Babies (featuring Tehn Vega), the album rounding out on the delicate Un Pequeño Desahogo, the organic Self Love, closing on the glorious jam of Praise (for Ralph Peterson & Bob Gulloti).
Musicians:
Willy Rodriguez - drums
Hery Paz - saxophone
Jason Palmer - trumpet
Leo Genovese - piano
John Hébert - bass
Kenneth Jimenez - bass
Dave Liebman - soprano saxophone
Tehn Vega - sound design
Official Purchase Link
www.willyrodriguezmusic.com
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