Abstractions in Lime Caverns

by Michael Marcus

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1.	Zight Pulse 05:36	buy track
2.	Xia Xia (Dancing Flowers Contend) 03:02	buy track
3.	Banana Pudding 02:32	buy track
4.	Abstractions in Lime Caverns 05:53	buy track
5.	Eddy & Jones 04:52	buy track
6.	Crossing the Rio 03:44	buy track
7.	Hueysville 02:48	buy track
8.	Hillscapes 08:49	buy track
9.	Lioness of the Trees 03:59	buy track
10.	La Verdad de Nuestro Amor 03:49	buy track

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Compositions/arrangements by Michael Marcus. “Hillscapes” is for Andrew Hill. “Hueysville” is for Sonny Simmons.
The recording is dedicated to François Grillot.

After paying his dues with bluesmen Albert King and Bobby “Blue” Bland and jazzman Jaki Byard, Michael Marcus had his first album released in 1991, when he was 39. He’s been much more prolific since then, co-leading Cosmosamatics with Sonny Simmons, SaxEmble with Frank Lowe and James Carter, Blue Reality Quartet with Joe McPhee, Warren Smith, and Jay Rosen, and Duology with Ted Daniel as well as Marcus’s many albums as sole leader. Frank Lacy moved to New York in 1981 and soon established himself (primarily as a trombonist) as Art Blakey’s music director, a member of the Mingus Big Band, sideman with Lester Bowie, David Murray Big Band, McCoy Tyner, and Roy Hargrove among others, and a leader in his own right. Tarus Mateen has worked with artists ranging from Christina Aguilera and OutKast to Betty Carter, Jason Moran, Hargrove, Greg Osby, and Terence Blanchard, to name a few. Jay Rosen of Cosmosamatics is also a member of Trio X with McPhee and Dominic Duval and Resonance Impeders with Chris Dahlgren and Briggan Krauss and has played with Mark Whitecage, Ivo Perelman, Gebhard Ullmann, etc.

Press Quotes:
"Marcus joins the ranks of such visionary jazz clarinetists as Don Byron, John Carter, Jimmy Giuffre, and Perry Robinson." — All About Jazz
"Michael Marcus comes out of Coltrane, Kirk, and Dolphy but has his own sound." — Thomas Conrad, Downbeat
"Marcus writes some of the finest tunes on the avant-garde scene." — Time Out New York
"Michael Marcus is a passionate player and a fluent composer of themes that inspire improvisers." — Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe
"He plays on that Dolphy-esque knife between inside and outside that makes for joyous listening." — Ben Watson, The Wire
"Michael Marcus has what every saxophone player strives for: an immediately identifiable sound that speaks of soul, blues, and gritty edginess." — Irwin Block, Montreal Gazette

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released October 28, 2022

Michael Marcus: soprano sax (1, 5, 8), tenor sax (3, 6), alto tarogato (4, 7, 10), G clarinet (2), bass flute (9), gong (6)
Frank Lacy: French horn (1, 4, 5, 8)
Tarus Mateen: Marcoustico acoustic bass (1, 4, 8, 9)
Jay Rosen: drums and percussion (1-10)

Recorded, mixed, and mastered on November 26-27, 2021 by Jim Clouse at Parkwest Studios, Brooklyn.

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Michael Marcus New York, New York

An all-star quartet of New York improvisers plays the inside-outside compositions of multi reed player Michael Marcus on his first album for ESP-Disk'.