Shrove

SSC1577 2020-10-09

Track List

Filles - 3:49
Stems - 6:31
ST - 4:51
What It Was All For - 4:24
Iron Swallow - 5:23
Falling Action - 5:29
Tableaux - 4:57
Parallel Floats - 3:51

Musicians

Sam Decker - tenor saxophone
Michael Sachs - clarinet and bass clarinet
Dov Manski - piano
Aryeh Kobrinsky - bass
Nathan Ellman-Bell - drums

Saxophonist/composer Sam Decker has focused much of his energy into purely improvised music. The Illinois-bred, Brooklyn-based Decker focused the past six years on developing music that blended his fascination with folk-inflected sounds of composers like Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok and Dmitri Shostakovich with the color and power of improvised music. The outcome is his first release that fits squarely in the jazz realm of composition meeting improvisation, namely, Shrove.