PHAROAH SANDERS | HAMID DRAKE | ADAM RUDOLPH - Spirits (2000) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

This in-concert recording at the Montreal Jazz Festival is a continual performance that acts as a suite in three basic parts, with Sanders on tenor sax, wood flutes, and percussion, helped by multipercussionists Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph. The music is as the title suggests: spiritual, multi-ethnic, mostly serene, and quite improvisationally derived. It's a beautiful statement from Sanders, very similar to the music Yusef Lateef has played (with Rudolph and Eternal Wind) and different than his more major-label efforts. "Sunrise," running over 19 minutes, begins the hour-long program. Soft drone tones set up tenor meditations, slight percussive inserts, mbira and driftwood wordless vocals, and soulful chanting, then move back to tenor musings with bells, and visceral, gutteral chants. "Morning in Soweto" and "The Thousand Petaled Lotus" segue together with hand drum and tenor groove in a manner reminiscent of Thelonious Monk's "Well, You Needn't" nestled in the Sudan! The next movement of the suite is in five parts. A demure gong, animal growls, and moans from "I & Thou" easily move into free and repeated wood flute phrases and insistent hand percussion as a driving force on "Uma Lake." "Molimo" is a separate entity, as counterpointed wood flutes hoot like owls with sexual overtones and rattling percussion. Fans of Sanders will be easily able to connect this music with his past glories, but it could be a portent of bigger things, and bigger ensembles, to come. Recommended. Michael G. Nastos
Tracklist :
1    Sunrise    19:12
2    Morning In Soweto    5:00
3    Thousand Petalled Lotus    6:59
4    I And Thou    2:05
5    Uma Lake    3:14
6    Ancient Peoples    7:35
7    Calling To The Luminous Beings    5:54
8    Roundhouse    2:28
9    Molimo    2:44
10    Sunset    5:08
Credits :
Composed By – Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake, Pharoah Sanders
Congas, Djembe, Udu [Udu Drum], Thumb Piano, Talking Drum, Bendir, Flute [Bamboo Flute], Overtone Voice [Overtone Singing], Gong, Percussion – Adam Rudolph
Drums [Trap Drums], Vocals [Vocal], Daf [Def], Tabla, Frame Drum [Frame Drums] – Hamid Drake
Producer [Produced By] – Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake, Pharoah Sanders
Tenor Saxophone, Vocals [Vocal], Flute [Wood Flutes], Percussion [Hindehoo] – Pharoah Sanders

SAM RIVERS | ADAM RUDOLPH | HARRIS EISENSTADT - Vista (2004) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Recorded in 2003 at the Clear Lake recording studio in Venice, California. This set places Sam Rivers in the company of drummer Harris Eisenstadt and percussionist Adam Rudolph for a series of seven medium-length freewheeling improvisations. Rivers plays tenor, soprano and flute on these exercises and the effect is electrifying. While completely in the moment, utterly outside, and spontaneously realized, there is a certain warmth and accessibility on this outing that is unexpected. The music flows, easily, effortlessly, and Rivers' own focus is remarkable in the onslaught of drums that seem to come from behind and in front of him, surrounding him on every side. The feeling is ever forward. Rivers doesn't strive to play above the drums but with them, through them, inside them, weaving a quilt of color and nuance while still projecting considerable force. This is not a date for everyone and it is a workout, but it's a sublime one that offers plenty to anyone willing to take it on its own terms.
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Tracklist :
1    Sussuration     5:44
2    Capacious     6:23
3    Motivity     8:22
4    Philio     8:20
5    Plumaseria     9:23
6    Specular     5:32
7    Vista    8:26
Credits :
Drums [Drumset] – Harris Eisenstadt
Percussion [Hand Drums], Percussion – Adam Rudolph
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Sam Rivers