- free improvisation, free jazz, jazz
- 56 min
- 7 tracks
- Atavistic
Straight Lines is an album by the American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, recorded in 1998 and released on Atavistic. The Joe Harriott Project, a pianoless quartet with four members of the Vandermark 5, plays the music of the Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott, transcribed and arranged by Vandermark. Three tunes are from the album Free Form and four from Abstract.
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Character
Grave, spare, cool and intimate.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1Tonal7:02
- 2Shadows6:21
- 3Straight Lines11:42
- 4Abstract6:30
- 5Idioms8:17
- 6Pictures9:04
- 7Formation7:04
7 tracks, 56 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Atavistic
- Released
- 1999
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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