{"title":"Tyshawn Sorey","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-susceptible-now","title":"The Susceptible Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Susceptible Now from drummer and 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winner Tyshawn Sorey covers a surprising set of some of his favourite music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe release continues to expand on Sorey's ongoing partnership with Diehl, now their fourth album together. The trio presents the McCoy Tyner classic \"Peresina\" from his album \u003ci\u003eExpansions\u003c\/i\u003e; \"A Chair in the Sky\" from the Joni Mitchell album \u003ci\u003eMingus\u003c\/i\u003e; \"Bealtine\" from Brad Mehldau; and \"Your Good Lies,\" a contemporary soul song from the group Vividry. Predictably, Sorey completely deconstructs these compositions, extracting and shuffling sections of the original recordings while arranging them into elaborate forms that morph constantly and unpredictably. The program is played without breaks, magnifying its focused intensity while creating a prodigious sense of scale more akin to a tone poem than a piano trio performance. It's yet another manifestation of Sorey's profound musical wizardry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50444126552395,"sku":"2223623","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50444126093643,"sku":"2223622","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a2204685513_10_53f18346_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727376341"},{"product_id":"the-off-off-broadway-guide-to-synergism","title":"The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism\u003c\/i\u003e is a blazing three-volume set recorded live at The Jazz Gallery in New York, featuring drummer Tyshawn Sorey's trio with special guest alto saxophonist Greg Osby. Increasingly celebrated for his notated works in the contemporary classical realm - Sorey was recently called \"composer of the year\" by The New York Times - and generally associated with the avant-garde, 'Off-Off Broadway' is a return to his musical roots: a celebration of collective improvisation over well-known jazz standards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing his trio of pianist Aaron Diehl, best-known for his association with singer Cécile McLorin Salvant; bassist Russell Hall, who has played with Wynton Marsalis and Joey Alexander; and Osby, whose illustrious four-decade long career includes 14 highly-acclaimed releases on the Blue Note record label. One of those, Banned in New York, which captured the rough and tumble of his quartet in a live setting and is considered by many to be among his finest - is an inspiration for this release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMesmerism\u003c\/i\u003e, Sorey's earlier trio foray with its curated selection of jazz standards that also features Diehl, is something of a sister release. But whereas that album is elegant, pristine, and jewel-like, \u003ci\u003eThe Off-Off Broadway Guide\u003c\/i\u003e is raw, fiery, and intense. The band plays with wild abandon, careering seamlessly from one song to the next, a true spontaneous combustion of master musicians uniting through the common language of improvisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTyshawn Sorey: drums \/ Greg Osby: alto saxophone \/ Aaron Diehl: piano \/ Russell Hall: bass\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pi Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50486008807755,"sku":"2001644","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Off-Off_Broadway_Guide_to_Synergism_Live_feat._Greg_Osby_Aaron_Diehl__Ru.jpg?v=1727605281"},{"product_id":"verisimilitude","title":"Verisimilitude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVerisimilitude\u003c\/i\u003e continues drummer\/composer Tyshawn Sorey's effort to shatter the jazz piano trio tradition by extending the form to encompass the influence of the likes of Feldman, Debussy and Xenakis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most in-demand drummers in improvised music - he has collaborated extensively with the likes of John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Claire Chase, George Lewis, and Roscoe Mitchell, among myriad others - Sorey is also in the vanguard of artists working in that liminal space between spontaneous composition and notated music. The New Yorker calls Sorey \"among the most formidable denizens of [that] in-between zone,\" while The Wall Street Journal has called him \"a composer of radical and seemingly boundless ideas.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing Cory Smythe on piano and Chris Tordini on bass, the trio's first release, 'Alloy' (Pi 2014), was described as \"shadowy and elegant\" by The New York Times. His 2015 release, 'The Inner Spectrum of Variables', which also features the same group joined by a string trio, was called \"devastatingly gorgeous\" by The Chicago Reader and \"a genuine masterwork\" by Stereogum. The new work utilizes a wide array of percussion, along with judicious use of electronics to explore a wider textural soundscape. The result is a far-reaching and intensely beautiful work that daringly blurs the boundaries between composition and improvisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonnel: Tyshawn Sorey (drums, percussion), Corey Smythe (piano, toy piano, electronics), Chris Tordini (bass)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pi Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50526921490763,"sku":"1117072","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50526904090955,"sku":"1117071","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"members-don-t-ww","title":"Members... 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