''Like Rays'' is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris with reedist

Ken Vandermark Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered composi ...

, who played clarinet and bass clarinet, and German pianist Hans Poppel. It was recorded in 1996 and released on the

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Reception

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'' notes that "Vandermark is a very impressive player, with a wide range of sonorities on his clarinets. Some of this pieces are dominates by him, to a degree that suggest the alphabetical listing of performers is no more than that and that this could usefully be reviewed as Ken's record." In his review for ''

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'' Duck Baker states "There are moments of subtle understatement as well as bursting intensity, and it all flows along with the collective intent that characterizes free music (or any kind of jazz) when it's really happening."Baker, Duck
''Like Rays'' review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Morris/Vandermark/Poppel'' # "Photon" – 1:20 # "New Fire" – 3:06 # "Within Reach" – 5:27 # "Like Rays" – 7:56 # "So as to Touch" – 7:32 # "Life Stuff" – 5:44 # "Parlance" – 4:54 # "I Can Live with That" – 6:22 # "Hand Signals" – 7:39 # "From Dreams" – 8:54 # "Levitate" – 2:05

Personnel

* Joe Morris -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

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clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...

*Hans Poppel –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

References

{{Authority control 1998 albums Joe Morris (guitarist) albums Ken Vandermark albums Knitting Factory Records albums