No Side Effects

No Side Effects
Studio album by Roscoe Mitchell
Released 2006
Recorded December 23 & 24, 2005; January 10 & February 18, 2006
Audio for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin
Genre Jazz
Length 126:04
Label RogueArt
Producer Michel Dorbon
Roscoe Mitchell chronology

Turn
(2005)
No Side Effects
(2006)
Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
(2007)

No Side Effects is a double album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell which was released in 2006 on the French RogueArt label. He leads a trio with Harrison Bankead on bass and cello and Vincent Davis on drums.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]

In his review for AllMusic, Alain Drouot states "Mitchell achieves a fine equilibrium between introspection, angularity, and intensity... The performance has a timeless quality since Mitchell only tries to fulfill his artistic mission, makes no concession to trends, and refuses to compromise with his ideas."[2]

The All About Jazz review by Marc Medwin says "Mitchell's recordings can elicit a deeply intuitive but ultimately inexplicable sense of unification in the face of superficial diversity, and this newest double disc is no exception."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell

Disc One: No Side Effects

  1. "Poem" - 6:23
  2. "Flash" - 5:24
  3. "From Red to Rusk" - 4:48
  4. "Broken Pictures" - 4:23
  5. "Shake-up" - 8:10
  6. "Trio Four" - 4:36
  7. "No Side Effects" - 3:12
  8. "Frame Three" - 6:30
  9. "Shag Bark Hickory" - 2:25
  10. "Let's See" - 3:57
  11. "Ruddy" - 4:20
  12. "Vermillon" - 4:12
  13. "When the Winds Blow" - 6:11

Disc Two: Frames

  1. "Parched Plain" - 13:38
  2. "Shore Line" - 5:22
  3. "An Afternoon Walk" - 6:02
  4. "Enfold" - 6:56
  5. "Frame Two" - 2:51
  6. "They Danced" - 3:35
  7. "Ride" - 3:41
  8. "Here We Go" - 3:39
  9. "Rolling" - 6:15
  10. "Yellow Night" - 6:41
  11. "Sway" - 2:53

Personnel

References

  1. No Side Effects at RogueArt
  2. 2.0 2.1 Drouot, Alain. Roscoe Mitchell – No Side Effects: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  3. Medwin, Marc. No Side Effects review at All About Jazz