Numbers (Roscoe Mitchell album)


Numbers is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, which was recorded in between 2003 and 2010 and released on the French RogueArt label.

Reception

', John Sharpe said "Mitchell himself, playing alto saxophone, appears on just one out of 13 tracks, recorded in multiple sessions over an eight year period from 2002. Even though, as Bill Shoemaker points out in his liners, little of the content would seem out of place individually in any Mitchell set list, the act of bringing these pieces together does make for a different experience. There is no indication as to whether the works are entirely through-composed or allow extemporization into their realization, but in spite of their abstraction, the consistent purity of tone and precision of delivery places them firmly in the contemporary new music camp"

Track listing

All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell except where noted
  1. "Bells for New Orleans " – 1:33
  2. "9/9/99" – 10:33
  3. "Sketches" – 6:36
  4. "Because It's" – 2:14
  5. "This" – 4:30
  6. "Dim" – 5:47
  7. "Bells for New Orleans" – 5:01
  8. "WR/C 2A Opus I" – 9:49
  9. "8/8/88 1st Movement" – 4:24
  10. "8/8/88 2nd Movement" – 1:50
  11. "8/8/88 3rd Movement" – 3:33
  12. "9/9/09" – 7:09
  13. "Bells for New Orleans " – 2:11