Living Geometry II

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About the Artist
Both Schwendener and Rossi have been major players on the Boston music scene for the last two decades. Schwendener is a pianist, composer and educator at Longy, New England Conservatory and UMASS Boston. He has performed around the world with his own groups and produced commissioned works for dance and independent films. His customized music and dance education non-profit Gravity Arts is currently celebrating its fifth anniversary. Rossi’s jazz resume includes extended stints with Stan Strickland, Jimmy Guiffre, and George Russell among others, and he has led the Marc Rossi Group since 1981. A full-time Associate Professor of Piano and Jazz Composition at the Berklee College of Music since 1989, Rossi is also a longtime student of both Hindustani and Carnatic Indian music and a prolific classical composer whose works have been premiered at legendary venues like Symphony Hall and Prague’s Dvorak Hall.

Album Description
Ben Schwendener/Marc Rossi
Living Geometry II: Volumes 1 and 2 (GRV 1900-8)

Over the course of their 10-year partnership, Boston-based pianist/composers Ben Schwendener and Marc Rossi have developed a unique and empathic musical language based on George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. They first documented this language—using innovative graphic scores as a coherent framework for spontaneous, genre-defying improvisation—on their 2002 debut, Living Geometry (GRV 1900-6), which All About Jazz Modern Jazz Editor Glenn Astarita called "a very special endeavor." This new two-disc set documents a pair of 2003 Boston performances, including four pieces also featuring Uwe Steinmetz and the legendary Joe Maneri on saxophones.

Living Geometry II
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    		Living Geometry II
    Ben Schwendener and Marc Rossi
    Manufacturer: Gravity Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    Avant Garde & Free JazzAvant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
    Jazz FusionJazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    ASIN: B00076V736
    Release Date: 2004-11-16

    Tracks:

    1. Living Geometry #3
    2. Conscious Evolution #3
    3. A&P Swing #2
    4. Dancing with Laws #3
    5. Solo Ben
    6. Solo Marc
    7. Conscious Evolution II, #4
    8. Origins of the Universe (Miles remembered)
    9. Bulgarian Two Step
    10. Springloader
    11. Pivot Pals #1
    12. Opening Night #1
    13. Living Geometry #4
    14. Dancing with Laws #4
    15. Conscious Evolution #5
    16. A&P Swing #3
    17. YKY
    18. Pivot Pals #2
    19. Dancing with Laws #5
    20. Transubstantiation
    21. Last Class
    22. Opening Night #2

    Album Description

    Ben Schwendener/Marc Rossi
    Living Geometry II: Volumes 1 and 2 (GRV 1900-8)

    Over the course of their 10-year partnership, Boston-based pianist/composers Ben Schwendener and Marc Rossi have developed a unique and empathic musical language based on George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. They first documented this language—using innovative graphic scores as a coherent framework for spontaneous, genre-defying improvisation—on their 2002 debut, Living Geometry (GRV 1900-6), which All About Jazz Modern Jazz Editor Glenn Astarita called "a very special endeavor." This new two-disc set documents a pair of 2003 Boston performances, including four pieces also featuring Uwe Steinmetz and the legendary Joe Maneri on saxophones.

    Music:

    1. London Calling
    2. Mellow Gold [Explicit Lyrics]
    3. My Body, the Hand Grenade
    4. Naked
    5. Odelay
    6. Only I Can Save You
    7. Paris [Live]
    8. Patterns
    9. Pure Guava
    10. Road Trips

    Music

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    Music

    Aerosol Grey Machine [Import]

    Gerber: Sinfonietta No2; Scenes

    Des Prez: Missa Lesse faire a mi

    I Walk the Line/Little Fauss and Big Halsey [Import] [Soundtrack]

    Amok

    Evening Fires

    Evita: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

    Claude Debussy: Works for Piano

    Garage [Import]

    Diane Walsh: Sonatas and Preludes

    Falling in Love With Love [Import] [Original recording remastered]

    From My Heart

    Corridos Mafiosos

    Sonnets and Songs (Solo Piano)

    Serpent's Egg