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All Genres > Jazz > Free Jazz > WILLIAM HOOKER, ROY CAMPBELL, AND JASON HWANG: The Gift, Live at Sangha Roy Campbell, William Hooker, and Jason Hwang in a collaborative effort that braids three of this music's most distinctive sounds into a single stream of heightened awareness and emapthy. This recording documents one of the amazing Transparent Productions presented at Sangha -- a fair trade outpost that has developed into a communal ceremonial grounds in the bosom of (the Peoples Republic of) Takoma Park, just outside of Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of the reinstallation of the Bush regime. "The three find endless ways to coalesce and diverge in organically satisfying ways, as when Hooker's high-hat shimmer melds with Hwang's keening violin, and Campbell joins in, quivering and quaking. They all have creditable solo passages, but most of the time they're like a bee cut cleanly into three parts, the head, thorax and abdomen getting two legs apiece, each segment dancing and panicing separately yet in organic synch..." -- Larry Cosentino, STN "The Gift is trumpeter Roy Campbell, violinist Jason Hwang and drummer William Hooker. Together, they produce music of exceptional plangency and emotional energy. Campbell inevitably occupies much of the frontscape, with the fiddle yawning and wailing behind like a bass player with a bank of pedals, but Hwang has a formidable musical mind and his more detailed passages demand close listening. The real wonder of the set is Hooker, who manages to give long performances a consistent pulse and energy without ever setting a clearly discernible metre. His solo episodes are often crafted of the scantest of musical material, but never sound minimalist or sketchy. A first rate album." -- Brian Morton, The Wire Check out the artist's website: http://www.bmadish.com Track List: 1. Live at Sangha Other Genres:
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