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01. SUNNY MURRAY - No U-Turns Today
02. SUNNY MURRAY - Philly Sure Has Changed
03. SUNNY MURRAY - Sundance At Night
04. SUNNY MURRAY - Changing Times I
05. SUNNY MURRAY - Changing Times II
06. SUNNY MURRAY - Nostalgia
07. SUNNY MURRAY - Now You Hear It, Now You Don't
ARTIST
TITLE
Perles Noires vol. II
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MTE 046CD MTE 046CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/14/2015

2005 release. Sunny Murray: drums; Sabir Mateen: alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet; John Blum: piano; Oluyemi Thomas: bass clarinet and c-melody saxophone. There's enough great music from Sunny Murray's 2003 Northeast tour to fill yet another volume, following Vol. I (MTE 045CD). The designation is dictated partly by chronology -- this material comes from the later part of the tour -- and partly by an aesthetic decision to program the music to show off the diversity and contrasts in Murray's handling of the different ensembles he worked with on the tour. Murray is a different drummer than he was when he first made jazz history with Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler. Partly that's because it's harder at his age to physically sustain the intense high energy of previous decades. Partly, it's a matter of artistic growth, development, and change. Murray's drumming on these discs is unfailingly musical. His unerring touch, sensitivity to sound and color, his relaxation and swing are the mark of a mature talent who knows exactly what he's doing. Murray's creativity, wit, and power are at a mature peak and no aspect of improvised music is beyond this most individual -- and still radical -- drummer.