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Cerulean Landscape

by Jason Robinson and Anthony Davis

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1.
Shimmer 08:42
2.
Someday I’ll Know 08:49
3.
Vicissitudes (for Mel) 06:33
4.
Translucence 08:59
5.
Of Blues and Dreams 09:33
6.
Andrew 07:03
7.
Cerulean Seas and Viridian Skies 07:26

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Clean Feed Records (CF196CD)

…floating in open space, warm waters off the coast of an equatorial dystopia, he cautiously raised his eyelids. sometime in recently passed moments, land and seascapes had transformed from vibrant tropics to a vivid, hallucinatory viridian sky and cerulean sea. in the distance, chiseled coastal mountains merged seamlessly with misty beaches and jagged cliffs. just as his focus intensified, the clean lines separating land and sea blurred and the vibrant greenish-blue of the water swept through his entire field of vision. waves became mountains and valleys and wind that teased white edges to the waves now swept through trees and leaves. the seascape had become a landscape and the sounds previously unimaginable now engulfed him as he floated…

Liner notes:

Anthony and I first began playing together as a duo sometime around 1998. Our recording of “C.T.” (an original dedicated to Cecil Taylor) was the cornerstone to my 2002 conceptual duo album Tandem (Accretions). Since that debut, we’ve been interested in recording a full-length album featuring various pieces we’ve developed in live performances that draw upon our continued investigations in the sounds, approaches, and strategies of duo performance.

Over the years, I’ve been captivated by the ways Anthony’s playing invokes expansive harmonies, textures, and timbres. Indeed, at times it feels as if the piano gives way to orchestral sounds, conjuring worlds richly evocative of Stravinsky, Ellington, and other pioneers of timbre and texture. This is no small coincidence—Anthony’s operas, orchestral pieces, and other compositions are clearly in dialogue with innumerable directions in modern music.

Indeed, Duke Ellington’s music has been a major guiding light in much of our work as a duo. Ellington’s remarkably evocative use of color in song titles and musical textures informs many of the pieces on this album. We’ve been especially drawn to his creative articulation of the “blues.” “Mood Indigo,” “Transbluesency,” and “Azure” are a few of the many possible examples that have captured our imaginations. In a certain sense, our project is an extension of this fascination with the blues. If Ellington were to collaborate with science fiction author Samuel R. Delany, one might encounter a cerulean landscape.

Jason Robinson
San Francisco, May 2010

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released November 1, 2023

Jason Robinson - tenor, soprano, and alto saxophones, alto flute

(c) 2010 Trem Azul and Jason Robinson

Jason Robinson - tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones, alto flute
Anthony Davis - piano

Tracks 3, 4, and 7 by Jason Robinson (Circumvention Music/ASCAP)

Tracks 1, 5, and 6 by Anthony Davis (Mindspeech Music Publishing Co/BMI)

Track 2 by Jason Sherbundy (Circumvention Music/ASCAP)

Recorded December 5 and 6, 2008 at Northfire Studios, Amherst, Massachusetts

Recording Engineer: Angelo Quaglia

Assistant Recording Engineers: Greg Tessitore, Marc Seedorf, Dylan Syrett

Mixed by mastered January and February 2009 by Steve Langdon, Langdon Productions, El Cajon, California
Photography by Charles Quigg

Many thanks to Steve Langdon, Andrew Quaglia, Marty Ehrlich, Cosmologic, Bruce Diehl, Bob Weiner, Max Suechting, Trummerflora Collective, Greg Call, Sara Leonard, Ted Keyes, Suzette Farnham, the Amherst College Department of Music, Pedro Costa and everyone at Clean Feed Records. As always, my greatest thanks go to my closest confidant, Stephanie Robinson.

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The music of American saxophonist and scholar Jason Robinson ("rugged and scintillating," New York Times) thrives in the fertile overlaps between improvisation and composition, acoustic music and electronics, tradition and experimentalism.

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