Featuring
- Kenny Millions (tenor sax, clarinet)
- Tatsu Aoki (bass)
Tracklisting
Recorded live at the Velvet Lounge in Chicago 6/13/2002.
2002
Label: Hum Ha
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Album Description, Editorial Review
citylinkmagazine.com (2003)
Last summer, Hallandale
Beach-based saxophonist Kenny Millions (a.k.a. Keshavan Maslak)
traveled to Chicago for a gig with bassist Tatsu Aoki, one
of that city’s great avant-garde jazz players. Recorded
live at the Velvet Lounge, this CD features the two masters
of free jazz conversing eloquently on a pair of improvised
pieces — the absurdly titled “Serious Chicken”
and “Japanese Businessman (Fucked)” — and a
pair of standards — “I Can’t Get Started”
and “Moonglow” — done in a very nonstandard
fashion. Aoki scrapes a fanged bow across the strings, tonally
resembling the deep grumbling of a didgeridoo, and Millions
goes from melancholy to sardonic to gleeful as he alternates
between melodic, bluesy figures and free-jazz skronk. A sad
and lovely read of “I Can’t Get Started” finds
Millions in a deep blue mood, blowing breathy, last-call tenor,
and a lyrical “Moonglow” closes the set in a mellow
tone, as he trades saxophone for clarinet. Those with a taste
for the outré will definitely want to meet both Tatsu
and Kenny.
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