A tribute to the masters of “Avant-Garde / Free Jazz”
“Outside Da’ Edge” is a tribute album like no other – with 15 riveting cuts played by one of the founding architects of the Bay Area’s “West Coast Free Jazz” sound.
Can you imagine what it [+]A tribute to the masters of “Avant-Garde / Free Jazz”
“Outside Da’ Edge” is a tribute album like no other – with 15 riveting cuts played by one of the founding architects of the Bay Area’s “West Coast Free Jazz” sound.
Can you imagine what it might have been like for Stravinsky to join with Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, and Sun Ra? If they were still alive, what kind of musical and artistic statements would they make with digital and space age technology? How has this provocative form of Jazz evolved under today's masters – Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Babatunde Lea and others?
Jazz aficionados, search no longer! Eddie Edwards delivers that hardcore, amplisonic, soulfully provocative Avant-Garde experience right here on his seminal CD release, “Outside Da’ Edge.” With an amazing collection of musical compositions, Edwards sculpts riveting tracks, combining a cutting-edge rhythm section, acoustic & digital electronic saxophones, trombone, trumpet, bass clarinet, and keyboards – along with orchestral & digital electronics – that will free your mind from the constriction of traditional Western music and take you on an exhilarating, refreshing musical rollercoaster ride.
“Outside Da’ Edge” will transport you back in time to the stage of Keystone Korner, San Francisco . . . the UC Berkeley Jazz Festival . . . a private New York jam session at the home of Walter Davis, Jr. . . . the De Young Museum and The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco . . . Mapenzi’s in Berkeley . . . the Sea Shell in Richmond, CA (with Smiley Winters & Bob Bray) . . . to a hundred different venues up and down the Coast . . . to gigs with Norton Wisdom, Zam Johnson, Dr. Rob “the Blob” Miller . . . to the late master drummer Billy Higgins . . . to Harlem’s own master bassist Barry Nelson – a few of the places where, and people with whom, Eddie Edwards has performed.
When you close your eyes and listen, you may just touch the swirling sounds of “Ayler,” while on a “Trane” that takes you a zillion “Miles” out as “Sun Ra” warms you with “Zappa” rays – Stravinsky style - because this CD will take you “Outside Da’ Edge.” Edwards' striking Drum 'n' Bass lines are the foundation of a musical Funk-bridge that transports th
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