TYSHAWN SOREY: Members, don’t git weary
A TRIBUTE TO MAX ROACH featuring Adam O' Farrill, Mark Shim, Lex Korten & Tyrone Allen.
“Dr. Tyshawn Sorey doesn’t like staying put. Not only is the revered composer, multi-instrumentalist and professor of contemporary music a highly prolific and dedicated composer – tirelessly committed to performing his work and challenging his listeners – but, conceptually speaking, he’s also disinclined to adhere to any single musical categorization, continually questioning the parameters of genre at every turn. His music boldly aggregates elements from a wide array of influences, disciplines, and musical traditions, and he is as versed in the complexities of composition as he is improvisation and indeed seeks to blur the distinction between the terms. Over the past couple of decades, Dr. Sorey has become a highly decorated figure in the jazz and classical communities, earning countless accolades for his innovative work and his iconoclastic approach.”
— BMI News
‘Members, don’t git weary’
In a heart felt genuflection to the great master Max Roach, MacArthur Fellow , Pulitzer prize winning composer and multi instrumentalist Dr. Tyshawn Sorey reimagines a recording whose context is embedded in one of the most pivotal cultural periods of the 20th Century. The original 1968 album Members, Don’t Git Weary was created amidst the assassination of both Civil Rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and American President John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War.
The project features each work on the original recording, performed in the same order as the original recording. Each arrangement winks at the original work, but also simultaneously captures the current moment threaded through the needle of the cycles of history.
For this expression of sincere gratitude for this snapshot of Roach’s work, Dr. Sorey has cast a band consisting of himself on drums, Adam O' Farrill, trumpet , Mark Shim, tenor saxophone , Lex Korten, piano and Tyrone Allen, bass.
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Trumpet, Tenor Sax, Piano, Bass & Drums
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