tracks

A Round With Sphere
Phoebe
Phrenology
Chance, Love, Logic
Orange
Sudden Deep Green of Summer
Liner
The Cloisters

notes

The Ellen Lease/Pat Moriarty Quintet has been called “the best un-recorded band out there”….until now. “Chance, Love, Logic” is the initial release by these veterans of the Free Jazz scene who have been honing their ensemble skills, developing their repertoire, and thrilling club and concert audiences in the Minneapolis area for more than a decade.

Award-winning composers Ellen Lease and Pat Moriarty contribute strong, highly colored works to the bands repertoire. From the soaring, dream-like lines of “Chance, Love, Logic” to the wide-angle post-bop energy of “Orange” to the pretzel logic of “Phrenology” to the spiritual stasis of “The Cloisters”, the quintet deftly mines both the literal and intuitive implications of these compositions.

This is a band that believes in continuity. Lease and Moriarty have collaborated on many projects since the early 80’s; the newest member of the group joined in 2003. Through the consistency of personnel and a stable but expanding repertoire the quintet has developed a high level of group interplay and risk-taking within the structures of the tunes. Although comparisons to the musics of Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago are well taken, this band definitely has its own sound and conception.

credits

Bass – Chris Bates (4)
Drums – Dave Stanoch
Piano – Ellen Lease
Saxophone – Pat Moriarty
Trumpet – Kelly Rossum

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