THREE COMPOSITIONS by ROSCOE MITCHELL & NICOLE MITCHELL'S BLACK EARTH ENSEMBLE

released October 26, 2012

All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell

Recorded live on August 30th 2009 at Piazza del Nuraghe, Sant’Anna Arresi, Sardinia, Italy at the occasion of “Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival 2009”
Mixing and mastering: Jean-Pierre Bouquet, L’Autre Studio, Vaires-sur-Marne, France
Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker
Photographs: Luciano Rossetti @ Phocus Agency
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

Despite the compositions’ respective demands, Nicole Mitchell and Black Earth Ensemble fully and vividly represented Roscoe Mitchell’s varied means of creating chemistry between written and improvised materials. At every turn in the program, they played with a palpable sense of familiarity and ease with the composer’s vernacular and methods. They sounded like they’ve been playing this music every night for a long time. Bill Shoemaker