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LUKE STEWART'S SILT REMEMBRANCE ENSEMBLE The Order

Year2025
FormatCD
StyleJazz
AvailabilityIn stock
14.70 €Buy

Description

● Daniel Carter – alto saxophone, trumpet● Brian Settles – tenor saxophone● Jamal Moore – alto and tenor saxophones, woodwinds, percussion● Luke Stewart – bass● Chad Taylor – drums



Bassist Luke Stewart isn't afraid of blurring boundaries and blending bands, with astonishing results. An essential creative force in the fertile jazz and improvised music scenes of the East Coast and beyond for nearly two decades, he seized a promising moment to combine musicians from two volatile working combos. As the name suggests, his new Cuneiform album credited to Silt Remembrance Ensemble, brings together two players from his Remembrance Quintet – Jamal Moore on reeds and percussion and veteran master Daniel Carter on alto sax and flute–and Silt Trio, featuring powerhouse tenor saxophonist Brian Settles and drum maestro Chad Taylor.

What had initially been planned as an album release concert for the Remembrance Quintet project Do You Remember?evolved into an entirely new situation. Stewart had an opportunity to perform at Tonal Park Studios in Takoma Park, MD, around the same time that Silt Trio was recording Unknown Rivers, 'and I used the opportunity to gather this special mix of those two groups,' he says. The recording isn't a document of the two-hour-plus concert. Rather, Stewart crafted the album after the fact, distilling and sequencing the music to create its own narrative arc, 'editing and arranging the performance so that it would make sense in an album form.'

Stewart's vision and music has increasingly reached far beyond any location. Last December, he presented a major multimedia work commissioned by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the landmark exhibition 'Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now.' It was the first time the Met presented a new work in conjunction with an exhibition, and by expanding his Blacks' Myths duo (with drummer Trae Cruddup) with special guests such as Silt Remembrance's Jamal Moore, flutist extraordinaire Nicole Mitchell, poets Moor Mother and Thomas Stanley, he created an acclaimed hour-long production with video, dance, and costumes.

Titles

01. Memory
02. Remember
03. River Road
04. Survive
05. Repeat
06. Silt Remembrance
07. Lion's Den
08. Claimed
09. The Order
10. Commandments 06:58
11. Chain Gang
12. Attention [bonus]
13. Luke Stewart / Silt Remembrance Ensemble - The Poet [bonus]

Press

JazzMania (FR · Eric Therer · //--)

C’est un de ces disques qui, de prime abord, ne paient pas de mine. Des cuivres, une basse et une batterie et, hop, voilà l’affaire pliée. Stop. Prenons le temps d’y prêter l’oreille attentivement. Des mots se font entendre. Une poésie se déploie. Les saxophones se conjuguent en tonalités alto et ténor. Une trompette vient en renfort. Des percussions s’annoncent, se précisent. Le jeu de batterie ne nous est pas inconnu. Et voici que l’on découvre que c’est l’excellent Chad Taylor qui est aux baguettes. Nous ne connaissions pas ce Silt Remembrance Ensemble. Et pour cause, il s’agit de son premier disque tandis qu’à notre connaissance, il n’a jamais joué dans nos contrées. L’initiative revient au bassiste Luke Stewart qui a rassemblé les autres musiciens dans la banlieue de Washington. On y trouve d’une part le saxophoniste/trompettiste free vétéran Daniel Carter et le saxophoniste Jamal Moore, lesquels l’avaient accompagné au sein de son quintet Remembrance et, d’autre part, le saxophoniste ténor Brian Settles et le batteur Chad Taylor qui officient avec lui au sein de son trio Silt. Cette grande réunion est heureuse. Elle accouche d’un album fécond et spirituel. Les mots, au travers des textes pressants, incisifs, s’invitent sur quatre morceaux dont la plage éponyme, à la manière d’un poème pocket écrit par Janice A. Lowe connue pour son « creative writing program ». « The Order » est un disque qui nous parle de notre époque, de ses travers, mais aussi de ses espérances possibles à travers l’acte de création qui se profile toujours, quelque part, comme une démarche d’éveil, d’émancipation.

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