Nine to Get Ready

Roscoe Mitchell, ?????????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B00000I73R
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #578,061 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Leola

2. Dream and Response

3. For Lester B.

4. Jamaican Farewell

5. Hop Hip Bip Bir Rip

6. Nine to Get Ready

7. Bessie Harris

8. Fallen Heroes

9. Move Toward the Light

10. Big Red Peaches

Customer Reviews

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Meditative, quirky, unobtrusive free music, July 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nine to Get Ready (Audio CD)

Roscoe Mitchell's "Nine to Get Ready" is a brilliant recording featuring Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory. The musicians on this album are all creative improvisors with a keen perception of the "ins" and "outs" of creative music. The approach is orchestral. The personnel has a distinctive Detroit/Michigan flavor. Fans of the James Carter quartet will be familiar with Jaribu Shahid, Craig Taborn, and Tani Tabal. The rhythm section of Tabal/Shahid is one of jazz's most intense and well matched. Craig Taborn on piano is a delight. Taborn has yet to receive the acclaim he is due. I remember hearing him during his days as a student at the University of Michigan and have been pleased to watch his progress and development in the jazz world. Joining Tani Tabal on drums in this ensemble is Gerald Cleaver. Cleaver is a dedicated drummer with Michigan roots as well thrilling the Sunday evening jazz crowd at the popular Del Rio bar in Ann Arbor quite often.

Roscoe Mitchell featured on soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, as well as flute is joined by two other horn musicians on this tour de force. Hugh Ragin fills in on trumpet and the profound George Lewis can be heard on trombone. Included in the ensemble are William Parker (bass) and Matthew Shipp (piano). This pair needs no description or explanation other than great musicians. Fans of the "out" stuff will agree I am sure.

I've listened to many jazz records in my lifetime and I've listened to the music that some deem avante-garde, free, or creative. The music on this album defies category. Simply put it is unobtrusive music that causes one to contemplate on the nature of ensemble improvisation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True, its not for everyone: THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT GREAT, not mediocre, May 4, 2008

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Il Dottore "PinkFlag" (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nine to Get Ready (Audio CD)

I don't know why someone would give this album two stars and then say "I'm just a casual jazz fan who doesn't like this"! Then WHY bother reviewing it? I have been listening to jazz, free-jazz, avant-garde , and free impov for over ten years now, and I can tell you that this album is a trues classic that would fit into all of those categories. It is one of roscoe's masterpieces, and it is a great place to start if you interested either in free-jazz of the 90's or Roscoe Mitchell's work. The mood and tone on the album range from delicate and meditative to free-wheeling and chaotic. It's not unobtrusive. Some of it very demanding, some of it even violent and disturbing. But overall Roscoe's amazing feat was to capture the spontaneity and choas (even in the very quiet tunes somehow) of this amazing double quartet--two drums, two basses, two pianos, two horn--on this recording. Some of it comes out in flawless compositions, such as Leola *possibly the best free-jazz composition in to date), and sometimes in the freeflowing jams, as in Hip, hop, bip, burr, rip. This album takes the orginal free-jazz experiment of Ornette Coleman, later taken up briefly by Coletrane, to new levels of possibilities, and it is one of the only examples of this daring musical approach. HIGHLY recommended. This is one of the gems in my free-jazz collection. Admittedly, this is not for fans of smooth jazz or mainstream jazz, this is for the open minded.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual, December 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nine to Get Ready (Audio CD)

This music represents spirituality to me. The musicians evoke deep feeling and inner peace. Thank you, Roscoe Mitchell.