Standards
- 1. Too Marvelous for Words 10:35
- 2. My Old Flame
5:27
- 3. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
8:42
- 4. Every Time We Say Goodbye
8:20
- 4. Too Marvelous for Words (alt)
9:43
| Jackson Moore | Alto Saxophone |
| Nate Wooley | Trumpet |
| Shelley Burgon | Harp |
| Eivind Opsvik | Bass |
| Mike Pride | Drums |
In 2004, I began to grapple with standard jazz practice, something I had not done since I was a teenager. I could no longer suppose that its persistence was the result of doctrinaire musicians in positions of influence, for it continued to thrive spontaneously in my own imagination even though I had neglected it for years in favor of more experimental gambits. It seemed to me that the invention of the solo had yielded a formally rigorous abelian system that, like language, persisted subjectively by virtue of being defined at the moment of execution and thereby satisfying cognitive constraints radically. Jazz is therefore not a style or a gamut of styles but the practice of intervening in the topology of these constraints. - Jackson Moore
recorded November 20, 2004 in Brooklyn, NY