Streams of Expression is the 20th album by Joe Lovano

Joe Lovano

Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...

 to be released on Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

. It was released in 2006 and features a five-part "Streams of Expression Suite," three-part "Birth of the Cool Suite," and three other shorter works. The "Birth of the Cool Suite" was conducted by Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...

 and utilizes melodic themes inspired by Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

' work from his 1948 and 1950 nonet. The album also features George Garzone

George Garzone

George Garzone is a saxophonist and jazz educator residing in New York city.Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, that performs regularly in the Boston area and has toured world wide. The...

, Ralph Lalama, Gary Smulyan

Gary Smulyan

Gary Smulyan is a jazz musician who plays baritone saxophone. He studied at SUNY before working with Woody Herman...

, and Tim Hagans

Tim Hagans

Tim Hagans is a jazz trumpeter and composer.He has been nominated for Grammys for Best Instrumental Composition for "Box of Cannoli" from The Avatar Session ; and Best Contemporary Jazz CD for Animation*Imagination and Re-Animation .He grew up in Dayton, Ohio...

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Track listing

1. "Streams of Expression: Streams, Pt. 1" - 10:53
2. "Streams of Expression: Cool, Pt. 2" - 7:02
3. "The Birth of the Cool Suite: Prelude/Moon Dreams" - 6:40
4. "The Birth of the Cool Suite: Interlude No. 1/Move/Interlude No. 2" - 8:05
5. "The Birth of the Cool Suite: Boplicity/Postlude" - 5:29
6. "Blue Sketches" - 4:52
7. "Buckeyes" - 9:30
8. "Streams of Expression: Enchantment, Pt. 3" - 3:41
9. "Streams of Expression: Second Nature, Pt. 4" - 6:00
10. "Streams of Expression: The Fire Prophets, Pt. 5" - 6:55
11. "Big Ben" - 4:47

Personnel

• Larry Farrell: Trombone
• George Garzone: Sax (Tenor)
• Tim Hagans: Trumpet
• John Hicks: Piano
• Dennis Irwin: Bass
• Ralph Lalama: Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
• Joe Lovano: Clarinet (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
• Lewis Nash: Drums
• Michael Parloff: Flute
• Barry Ries: Trumpet
• Charles Russo: Clarinet, Clarinet (bass)
• Gunther Schuller: Conductor
• Steve Slagel: Flute, Sax(Alto), Sax (Soprano)
• Gary Smulyan: Sax (Baritone)
• James Weidman: Piano