''Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist

Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' described him as "one of the key figures ...

, which was recorded in 2012 and released on Wide Hive.''Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin''
at Wide Hive Records

Reception

In his review for

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, Fred Thomas states, "Playing spare percussion as well as a bevy of saxophones, flutes, and woodwinds, Mitchell joins in with his collaborators to create a patient, fragmented sonic environment, full of floating and curious sounds. Occasional bursts of energetic sound are more playful than aggressive, though even the more brash and outgoing sounds have a particularly insular feel to them."

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said "The record is new, but the mystery is always the same. From what planet does Roscoe Mitchell's music come from? ... Every track on this CD is full of ideas."All About Jazz review
accessed January 2, 2018

Track listing

All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell except were noted # "The Horn" – 2:03 # "The Way Home" (Mitchell, Tyshawn Sorey) – 7:15 # "Bells in the Air" (Mitchell, Sorey, Hugh Ragin) – 11:17 # "Out There" – 4:02 # "Scrunch" (Mitchell, Ragin, Sorey) – 8:44 # "A Cactus and a Rose" – 4:16 # "Chant" – 8:56 # "Meadows" – 2:06 # "A Game of Catch" (Mitchell, Sorey) – 7:25 # "Waves" (Mitchell, Ragin, Sorey) – 8:19 # "Windows with a View" – 2:13

Personnel

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

Hugh Ragin Hugh Ragin is an American jazz trumpeter. Career Ragin was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Houston, Texas, and began playing trumpet in his early teens, taking lessons in classical music, and was a member of the Houston All-City High Sch ...

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

Tyshawn Sorey Tyshawn Sorey (born July 8, 1980) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and professor of contemporary music. Sorey has received accolades for performances, recordings, and compositions ranging from improvised solo percussion to opera, ...

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

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