Hafez Modirzadeh - Facets (2021)

Hafez Modirzadeh Facets 2021 - Pi Recordings: PI87 https://pirecordings.com/albums/facets/ https://pirecordings.com/hafez-modirzadehs-facets/ https://hafezmodirzadeh.bandcamp.com/album/facets  * Hafez Modirzadeh : tenor saxophone (2-5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17) * Kris Davis : piano (3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 16) * Tyshawn Sorey : piano (2, 5, 8, 10, 14, 17) * Craig Taborn : piano (1, 7, 11, 13, 15, 18) https://sfsu.academia.edu/HafezModirzadeh https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hafez-modirzadeh-mn0000548809 https://www.krisdavis.net/ https://www.tyshawnsorey.com/ https://www.craigtaborn.com/ Recorded · by Jim Clouse at Parker West Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA, on December, 2019,  and · by Greg DiCosta at Firehouse 12, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, on December, 2019. Reviews  By Peter Margasak https://thequietus.com/articles/29745-icp-septet-vijay-iyer-charles-lloyd-jazz-review Iranian-American saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh is part of a growing number of musicians exploring different modes of expression to incorporate microtonality with jazz practice. This latest endeavour to advance his theory of “chromodality” — fusing Persian scales with standard Western temperament — enlists three excellent pianists to perform on a specially tuned instrument that re-tunes eight keys on a keyboard while leaving the rest in equal temperament. He sent his scores for a series of duo pieces in advance to Kris Davis, Craig Taborn, and Tyshawn Sorey (the acclaimed drummer and composer who also happens to be an excellent pianist), but each musician encountered the re-tuned piano for the first time in the studio. Most of the tracks are pensive original pieces where the pitches may seem wobbly to ears only accustomed to standard scales, but the microtonality brings out strange, alluring new harmonies and melodic lines of much greater nuance. Especially interesting are some classics by Thelonious Monk, a pianist who famously inserted an adjacent note to suggest a bent or “blue note”. -- By Troy Dostert https://www.allaboutjazz.com/facets-hafez-modirzadeh-with-kris-davis-tyshawn-sorey-and-craig-taborn-pi-recordings By Hrayr Attarian https://www.allaboutjazz.com/facets-hafez-modirzadeh-pi-recordings By Tim Niland https://jazzandblues.blogspot.com/2021/03/hafez-modirzadeh-facets-pi-recordings.html By Chris Robinson https://pointofdeparture.org/PoD75/PoD75MoreMoments5.html By Filipe Freitas https://jazztrail.net/blog/hafez-modirzadeh-facets-album-review By Lana Norris https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2021/03/hafez-modirzadeh-facets-pi-recordings-shimmering-liberation/ By Stuart Broomer https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/jazzaimprovised/30936-facets-hafez-modirzadeh Jan Kopač (si) https://radiostudent.si/glasba/tolpa-bumov/hafez-modirzadeh-facets Por Carlos Pérez Cruz (es) http://www.elclubdejazz.com/programa/641/