Featuring
- Tatsu Aoki
- Jason Kao
- Hwang Francis Wong
Tracklisting
- To the Endless Embrace of Light (f/ Wu Man)
- Invocation and Resonance
- Microscopic
- Blood Falling Out-of-Bounds
- Door Beneath an Arch
- Transparent Tapestry
- Alluvial Fan (f/ Wu Man)
- Before Memory Begins
2005
Asian Improv Records AIR0066
ASIN: B000HEYTDI
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Album Description, Editorial Review
Kurt Gottschalk, All About Jazz
Violinist Jason Kao Hwang has sought to meld American jazz and blues with motifs from
the Far East for years, most notably on his excellent 1990 release Unfolding Stone
(Sound Aspects). Now, with a group all of Asian descent, Hwang has entered a more fully
Asiatic idiom, leaving the particularly American vocabularies behind for something more
universal.
The trio is comprised of Western instruments--Francis Wong plays soprano saxophone
and Tatsu Aoki upright bass--but it's also supplemented by the
talented Wu Man on pipa, a Chinese stringed
instrument that's similar to a lute. Without a percussionist, the group yields a graceful,
delicate sound that surprises at times with quiet suggestions and phantom voices. Wong
in particular plays so slowly and softly that he dissolves into the group, giving the feeling
of an ethereal string ensemble.
At times these musicians break out of the evocative mist, as on the bluesy "Blood Falling
Out-of-Bounds," anchored by a simple, metric riff by Aoki, who has worked extensively
with Chicagofs AACM in recent years. But when these players are at their best, they float
past, as if they didnft know anyone was listening.
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Posture Of Reality
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The Aoki,Wong,Pavkovic Trio (96)
Trio
Aoki Hunsinger Jarman (03)
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The Miyumi Project (06)
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