All Music Guide: Come Sunday

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Come Sunday
Artist	Assif Tsahar/Tatsuya Nakatani
Album Title	Come Sunday
Date of Release	2003
AMG Rating
Genre	Jazz

Here is a mighty duet recording between sax great Assif Tsahar and über drummer Tatsuya Nakatani. While the notion of improvisation is at the heart of all 11 pieces here, it's far from all that there is. Tsahar is one of the great champion's of tonal dynamics. His esthetic is dictated by what is actually called for in discovering the way a tonal center displays not only color and openness, but also rhythmic possibility. The way Nakatani plays through this adds not only dimension, but also depth. Check out "J Walk," with its restrained palette that nonetheless opens onto a dais of slow-turning phrases based on a beat that is not so much played, but illustrated. It's a question of language and punctuation in a sonic setting. These pieces are all articulations of language stored, articulated, and reformed according to the principle of rhythm and dynamic. Harmonics play their role, but melody is a benefit here that is displayed as the direct result from the focus on elemental phraseology that constricts the impulse to free blow while opening up possibility syntactically and texturally from inside. This is an awesome dialogue that moves vanguard jazz in new and astonishing directions. -- Thom Jurek


		1.			Rap Ace Slot performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 4:19
		2.			J Walk performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 5:21
		3.			Closed News performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 4:38
		4.			Sawing Clouds performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 7:37
		5.			Street Cleaning performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 5:00
		6.			Come Sunday performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 3:07
		7.			West 4th performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 2:38
		8.			NY Moment performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 1:53
		9.			Low Lov performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 5:41
		10.			Circling the Cube performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 4:38
		11.			Missed Rehearsal performed by Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani - 7:06


Assif Tsahar	-	Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Tenor), Producer, Cover Design
Tatsuya Nakatani	-	Percussion, Drums, Engineer, Mastering


2003	CD	Hopscotch	24

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