{"product_id":"seven-pieces-about-an-hour-saxophone-piano-drums","title":"Seven Pieces \/ About An Hour \/ Saxophone, Piano, Drums","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are some jazz musicians long known by cognoscenti for a mere handful of recordings: Dupree Bolton, Earl Anderza, Hasaan Ibn-Ali, Alan Shorter, Dewey Johnson. Add saxophonist Mark Reboul to that list. Before the release of this album, his discography consisted of four tracks on three albums on which he was a sideman. On Higher Primates’ Environmental Impressions (GM, 1987), he plays sax on two of the percussion heavy album’s five tracks: a fragmentary track, and a sixteen-and-a-half-minute improvisation; he has a percussion cameo (playing waterphone) on Bill Gerhardt \u0026amp; Cotangent’s Stained Glass (SteepleChase, 2007); and on Gaelen McKenna’s self-released 2004 album Woodbach, a Reboul improvisation is manipulated and looped. ESP-Disk’ is a label with a history of albums by under-documented musicians (Byron Allen, Lowell Davidson, Marzette Watts, Nedley Elstak) and thus the perfect label to redress the situation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other musicians in the trio heard here have been more prolific in the recording studio. Piket, daughter of a classical composer and a standards singer, got a degree from the New England Conservatory, studied with pianists Richie Beirach, Stanley Cowell, and Fred Hersch, and was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk BMI Composers Competition. She has a baker’s dozen albums as a leader, a smattering of collaborative projects, and work as a side-person stretching back to a 1995 Lionel Hampton album. Mintz is Piket’s husband (they married well after this recording was made). Three years ago, she made a solo piano recording of an entire CD’s worth of his compositions. He also has a fascinating bio: already a gigging musician at the age of 15, and in his twenties recorded with the Lee Konitz Nonet, Perry Robinson, and Gloria Gaynor, among others; during a period living in Los Angeles, he worked with an equally eclectic range of musicians, from Vinny Golia to Mose Allison to the Merv Griffin Show band.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe style is free improvisation, but a quieter and more subtle form of free jazz than ESP is famous for. Reboul is a unique player, and that’s why ESP considers this an important release that adds to fans’ knowledge of the NYC free scene. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESP Disk","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50395775598923,"sku":"2156461","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_16_53b286ae_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726471775","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/seven-pieces-about-an-hour-saxophone-piano-drums","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}