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A Cloud of Black Birds

A Cloud of Black Birds
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Studio album by Joe Morris
Released 1998
Recorded June 26, 1998
Studio PBS Studios, Westwood, MA
Genre Jazz
Length 57:15
Label AUM Fidelity
Producer Joe Morris, Steven Joerg
Joe Morris chronology
Like Rays
(1998)
A Cloud of Black Birds
(1998)
Deep Telling
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
The Penguin Guide to Jazz 3.5/4 stars

A Cloud of Black Birds is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris, which was recorded in 1998 and released on the AUM Fidelity label. It features a quartet with bassist Chris Lightcap, violinist Mat Maneri and drummer Jerome Deupree.

In his review for AllMusic, David R. Adler states "The music is intense and challenging, but it has a certain airiness."The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "Reunion with Maneri sparks off a lot of shared experience, and their interaction, notably on the duo 'Renascent', is close, intelligent and thoroughly sympathetic." The JazzTimes review by Harvey Pekar says that "Morris' solos have an angular quality. He plays both flurries of notes and spare phrases during which he's thinking from interval to interval, trying to make the shape of his lines as distinctive as possible."


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