Michael Marcus

After paying his dues with bluesmen Albert King and Bobby “Blue” Bland and jazzman Jaki Byard, Michael Marcus had his first album released in 1991, when he was 39. He’s been much more prolific since then, co-leading Cosmosamatics with Sonny Simmons, SaxEmble with Frank Lowe and James Carter, Blue Reality Quartet with Joe McPhee, Warren Smith, and Jay Rosen, and Duology with Ted Daniel as well as Marcus’s many albums as sole leader.

Frank Lacy moved to New York in 1981 and soon established himself (primarily as a trombonist) as Art Blakey’s music director, a member of the Mingus Big Band, sideman with Lester Bowie, David Murray Big Band, McCoy Tyner, and Roy Hargrove among others, and a leader in his own right. Tarus Mateen has worked with artists ranging from Christina Aguilera and OutKast to Betty Carter, Jason Moran, Hargrove, Greg Osby, and Terence Blanchard, to name a few. Jay Rosen of Cosmosamatics is also a member of Trio X with McPhee and Dominic Duval and Resonance Impeders with Chris Dahlgren and Briggan Krauss and has played with Mark Whitecage, Ivo Perelman, Gebhard Ullmann, etc.

TRACKS:

PERSONNEL:

• Michael Marcus - (soprano & tenor sax, alto tarogato, clarinet, bass flute, gong)
• Frank Lacy - (french horn)
• Tarus Mateen - (acoustic bass)
• Jay Rosen - (drums and percussion)

Recorded on November 26-27, 2021

TRACKS:

• 01. Zight Pulse
• 02. Xia Xia (Dancing Flowers Contend)
• 03. Banana Pudding
• 04. Abstractions in Lime Caverns
• 05. Eddy & Jones
• 06. Crossing the Rio
• 07. Hueysville
• 08. Hillscapes
• 09. Lioness of the Trees
• 10. La Verdad de Nuestro Amor