Hints on Light and Shadow

1. Heads of the People
2. Desire
3. Zone
4. The New System
5. Mister Mayor and Mister Miser
6. Autumnal Influences: The Book of Beauty
7. Public Servant
8. The Circumlocution Office
9. Chiaroscuro

Julian Priester - trombone
 Sam Rivers - tenor & soprano saxophones, flute, piano
 Tucker Martine - electronics
 

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On Hints on Light and Shadow, maestros Julian Priester and Sam Rivers mesh their free-spirited instincts with electronics that enlarge the palette and electrify the proceedings, a brass and reed fantasy distilled to its pure, swinging, melodic essence. This unprecedented duet session blends the music of two masters of jazz and free (who have played and developed with, and contributed to, the music of everyone from T-Bone Walker and Billie Holliday to Miles, Cecil Taylor, and Herbie Hancock, and on through the distant music galaxies of Sun Ra) with the fresh, post modern, hipper-than-now electronics of Seattle's Tucker Martine. Together they achieve the highest level of improvisational feel and thought, in a manner rarely, if ever, attempted on a recording.