Anthony Davis: Notes from the Underground
BMOP/sound
1036
March 2014
Disc 1: 61:14
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project
  • Gil Rose, conductor

A beguiling subterranean mix of sound and texture...new music counterculture at its best

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Track listing

Disc 1 
 Notes from the Underground
1.I. Shadow
2.II. Act
 You Have the Right to Remain Silent
3.I. Interrogation
4.II. Loss
5.III. Incarceration
6.IV. Dance of the Other
 Wayang V
7.I. Opening-Dance
8.II. Undine
9.III. March
10.IV. Keçak
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[News Coverage] Anthony Davis wins Pulitzer Prize

Anthony Davis' opera The Central Park Five, with a libretto by Richard Wesley, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

NPR Full review
[News Coverage] Top SD Jazz Records of 2014

San Diego jazz musicians made some excellent recordings in 2014, several of which could easily make an argument for the No. 1 position on this “best-of” compilation. I always agonize on how to rate them, and ultimately, it’s never an easy decision. In the end, I’ve got to go with what floored me the hardest. In that respect, I’m comfortable with the Top 2 in that order, and I could probably vacillate on the relative placement of the others until 2015. Oh, wait -- I already did that! So here are my favorite San Diego jazz recordings of last year.

NBC San Diego Full review
[CD Review] American Record Guide reviews Anthony Davis: Notes from the Underground

MacArthur Fellow Anthony Davis (b. 1951) is probably best known for his explosive political operas (X: The Life and Times of Malcom X is the most notorious). His music has as its formative influences 60s avant-grade jazz figures like Charlie Haden (his Liberation Orchestra with Carla Bley) and Sun Ra, updated with more contemporary characteristics like minimalist repetition and non-Western ethnic techniques.

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[CD Review] Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review on Davis: Notes from the Underground

Of all the contemporary jazz artists who have crossed-over to classical orchestral music and other large-scale forms, Anthony Davis is certainly among the most prominent, with multiple compositions, performances and albums going back decades. He also is one of the most original, with a style of his very own. I consider him among a small handful of the very best jazz composers working in classical configurations.

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[CD Review] Audiophile Audition on Davis: Notes from the Underground

Anthony Davis is, in my opinion, one of America’s greatest and most unique composers. His music comes at you from a number of different, intriguing and artistically important perspectives. As a jazz pianist, himself, Davis often brings a sense of the improvised and the most progressive jazz harmonies and momentum to his work. There are not only direct references to some jazz greats, such as Duke Ellington, in his music; such as the captivating Notes from the Underground, but a sense of jazz orientation in a number of his works.

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