Power Lines (1995)

About this title: The term "New York downtown jazz" is sometimes frowned upon by its practitioners, who tend to feel stylistically pigeonholed by the descriptor and also linked to a certain club south of Canal Street, about which many feel ambivalent at best. There might be a number of reasons for these members of the New York creative music community to roll their eyes at yet another reference to "downtowners" (not the least of which being that many of them live in Brooklyn), but they must at least acknowledge that the downtown scene is usually described in positive terms -- edgy, progressive, boundary ... read more

Tracks:

1. Hidalgo [Rothenberg]
2. Strange Saraba Nde [Rothenberg]
3. Bellhop Vontz [Rothenberg]
4. Crosshatch [Rothenberg]
5. In the Rotation [Rothenberg]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.