Breath Rhyme

Breath Rhyme
Studio album by Rob Brown
Released 1990
Recorded April 28 & 29, 1989
Sound on Sound Recording Studio, New York
Genre Jazz
Length 47:14 (LP)
65:32 (CD)
Label Silkheart
Producer Rob Brown
Rob Brown chronology

Sonic Explorations
(1988)		 Breath Rhyme
(1990)		 Youniverse
(1992)

Breath Rhyme is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 1989 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

Background

After his debut album co-led with pianist Matthew Shipp, Sonic Explorations, which was privately recorded and then sold, this was his first real studio date. It features a trio with bassist William Parker and drummer Denis Charles playing all original Brown compositions. Parker and Charles had worked together a lot before, with Jemeel Moondoc and some other bands. Brown first played with Parker in a trio with drummer Frank Bambara in 1987. He put together the trio with Parker and Charles for a gig at the Knitting Factory the same year.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz [4]

In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow says about the trio that "is a throwback in ways to the intense projects recorded by the ESP label in the 1960s, but it is also more modern, looking toward Cecil Taylor."[3]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "Brown first record looked back to the frantic avant-gardism of the '60s and forward to a new, third way approach which combine that freedom and radicalism of purpose with a more melodic and expressive idiom."[4]

The Cadence Magazine review by Carl Baugher says about the album that "It makes a strong case for Brown's place amongst today's better alto improvisers and is another unqualified winner for Silkheart".[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Rob Brown
  1. "Firewalk" – 10:50
  2. "Stillness" – 5:58
  3. "Breath Rhyme" – 7:31
  4. "PB" – 10:47
  5. "The Light" – 4:47
  6. "Beehive" – 11:33
  7. "Awake" – 7:28
  8. "Escape Velocity" – 6:38
3 & 4 does not appear on original LP

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Breath Rhyme at Silkheart
  2. ↑ William Parker Sessionography by Rick Lopez
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yanow, Scott. Rob Brown – Breath Rhyme: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 186. ISBN 0-14-103401-7.