Skillfullness
Released: Nov 6, 2001
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Released: Nov 6, 2001
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Alan Silva is probably best known as a bassist, having appeared on several seminal albums of free jazz with Sunny Murray, Albert Ayler, and Cecil Taylor, but for his own solo outing on ESP-Disk,...
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Emancipation Suite #1
Released: May 29, 1999
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Released: May 29, 1999
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Emancipation Suite #1 was performed live in 1999 at the Vision Festival, the annual gathering of New York's avant-garde inner circle. The six-movement piece features William Parker on double bass,...
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A Hero's Welcome: Pieces For Rare Occasions
Released: Mar 6, 1998
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Released: Mar 6, 1998
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You might not expect such lushness from a duo of midi keyboard and acoustic string bass, particularly from Alan Silva and William Parker, but, as to be expected, this is music of considerable...
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HR57 Treasure Box
Released: 2003
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Released: 2003
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The "Treasure Box" is as much an art artifact as it is an exemplary document of Alan Silva's consummate skill as a composer, big band leader, arranger, and improviser. Presented as two individually...
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HR57, Vol. 1
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This album and its three companion volumes, HR57, Vol. 2, HR57, Vol. 3, and HR57, Vol. 4, document two complete evenings of music presented by the 23-piece Celestrial Communication Orchestra under...
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HR57, Vol. 2
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Following on from HR57, Vol. 1, the second volume of this four-disc set (whose title refers to a resolution passed in the U.S. Congress in 1987 designating jazz as a "rare and valuable national...
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HR57, Vol. 3
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On May 27, 2001, conductor and synthesizer player Alan Silva convened his 23-piece Celestrial Communication Orchestra for the second of two appearances at the Uncool Festival in Poschiavo,...
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HR57, Vol. 4
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HR57, Vol. 4 takes up where its predecessor, HR57, Vol. 3 leaves off, just after the extended setting of the text of Rep. John Conyers' resolution passed by the U.S. Congress designating jazz as a...
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In the Tradition
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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In April 1993, seven years after the quintet session that yielded the In Situ album Take No Risks, Alan Silva -- on synthesizer this time -- and British improvising percussionist Roger Turner...
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