Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock & Cory Smythe – Planktonic Finales (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:22 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records
Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock and Cory Smythe – this trio consists of three innovative improvisers and jazz musicians of the younger Brooklyn scene. An intense and extremely relaxed encounter in the recording studio led to this outstanding album.
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Cory Smythe – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:19 minutes | 965 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pyroclastic Records
Pianist Cory Smythe’s often-knotty compositions and improvisations move between, and combine, contemporary classical and avant jazz, while also addressing social issues in ways that are both unusual and highly conceptual.
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Cory Smythe – Accelerate Every Voice (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:40 minutes | 814 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pyroclastic Records
Many muddled accelerations shape this: beginning with my longstanding but increasingly spellbound appreciation for Andrew Hill’s record Lift Every Voice and the James Weldon Johnson-derived lineage of optimistic songcraft it transforms; likewise, the fast-evolving sophistication of collegiate a cappella (a scene suggested by Hill’s vocable-singing choir) on its mutating path from the Kipling-glossing “Whiffenpoof Song” to iridescent cyborg pop; the calamitous choirs of piano-engulfing ocean waves presaged in Annea Lockwood’s music and presently hastening inland; the crowds gathering in America to greet them, the crescendo of our infectious chants and cheers.
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