Joe Giardullo Open Ensemble ~ Red Morocco ~ 2007
Rogueart ROG-0012.
 
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1 	OPB 	6:21
2 	OPG 	7:42
3 	2T(m) 	4:06
4 	Memory Root 	7:32
5 	OPD 	3:47
6 	NFRTT-1 	4:17
7 	Q-2G(e) 	8:38
8 	Calabar 	3:03
9 	Hikori 	3:01
10 	Red Morocco 	10:45

Lori Freedman: bass clarinet, clarinet
Daniel Levin, Martha Colby: cellos
Joe Giardullo: sopranino saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Dom Minasi, Rich Rosenthal: guitars
Brian Melick: percussion
Steve Lantner: piano
Joe McPhee: trombone, trumpet
Gordon Allen: trumpet
David Prentice, Michael Snow, Rosie Hertlein: violins
David Arner: xylophone

Joe Giardullo's 14-piece band dubbed the Open Ensemble is named with good reason. Unlike many other groups that feature improvisation as their centerpiece, Giardullo demands a spacious precept that emphasizes tacit space as much as the notes, de-emphasizes counterpoint, and allows the music to breathe deeply. He also is not big on personal interactive listening skills as much as listening to one's self, and ensuring that each individual contribution has the utmost meaning and depth. What you hear, on a completely different level than usually conceived, is a string of snippets that at times coincide, flow and ebb like an easy running river, and never congeal to the point where they blend the vast color palette employed into any one darkened or discernible hue... - Michael G. Nastos, AMG