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Active Ingredients: Titration

Read "Titration" reviewed by Rex  Butters


The aptly named Active Ingredients brings together four of the strongest players on the New York free scene. Drummer Chad Taylor worked with Fred Anderson and several Chicago Underground groupings before moving east. Bassist Tom Abbs plays with the Brooklyn Jump Arts Collective and anchors other ensembles with Taylor. Trombonist Steve Swell has employed alto saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc in his Unified Theory of Sound; Moondoc also leads groups of his own.

“Song for Dyani” establishes the group identity ...

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Active Ingredients: Titration

Read "Titration" reviewed by Derek Taylor


One of the most enduring aspects of improvised music is the infinite mutability of musician associations. Band borders are among the most porous of any musical genre. Players switch and trade-up with catalyzing regularity. It’s one of the few styles of musical expression that actively encourages continuous recombinating and is made all the more healthy through a resistance to long-term convention and custom.

Drummer Chad Taylor and bassist Tom Abbs are both of a younger generation that has ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Titration

Delmark Records
2004

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Titration

Delmark Records
2003

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