Roscoe Mitchell - The Roscoe Mitchell Solo Saxophone Concerts download album

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Solo Saxophone Concerts is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell composed of solo concert performances from 1973 and 1974 and released on the Canadian Sackville label. It was reissued in 2009 by AECO/Katalyst under the title The Solo Concert

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Mitchell proves to be a brilliant architect of sound, frequently building up a simple idea to unimagined heights of complexity. Performing on soprano, alto, tenor and bass saxophones at the three festivals at which this music is taken from, Roscoe Mitchell demonstrates why he is considered one of the masters of avant-garde jazz. This solo set is only topped by his 1976-77 Nessa recording Nonaah.

The Bad Guys (With Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory) 2000. Conversations II (With Craig Taborn & Kikanju Baku) 2014. Conversations I 2014. Old & Quartet (Vinyl) 1967. L-R-G, The Maze, S II Examples (Vinyl) 1978.

Discography of Roscoe Mitchell. Bells For The South Side. The Bad Guys (With Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory).

Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist. Mitchell grew up in the Chicago, Illinois area where he played saxophone and clarinet at around age twelve. His family was always involved in music with many different styles playing in the house when he was a child as well as having a secular music background. His brother, Norman, in particular was the one who introduced Mitchell to jazz. While attending Englewood High School in Chicago, he furthered his study of the clarinet.