Co-led by Mike Reed and Jason Adasiewicz, two of the fastest-rising young stars of Chicago’s insanely vibrant jazz scene, Living by Lanterns was formed specifically to bring together four of Chicago’s and four of New York’s leading players for a special and unique project concept. Commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), the music was created in response to material contained in ESS’s vast Sun Ra Audio Archive.
Rather than a Sun Ra tribute, Reed and Adasiewicz have crafted a melodically rich, harmonically expansive body of themes orchestrated from fragments extracted from a rehearsal tape marked “NY 1961”, featuring Ra on electric piano, John Gilmore on tenor sax and flute, and Ronnie Boykins on bass. The tunes on Old Myth/New Science were written by the co-leaders based on the 1961 tape. That tape contains no compositions per-se, but there are a lot of stream-of-consciousness ideas and some of these ideas were teased out, hugely expanded upon and turned into the pieces heard here.

PERSONNEL:

GREG WARD, alto saxophone
TAYLOR HO BYNUM, cornet
INGRID LAUBROCK, tenor saxophone
TOMEKA REID, cello
MARY HALVORSON, guitar
JASON ADASIEWICZ, vibraphone
JOSHUA ABRAMS,  bass
TOMAS FUJIWARA,  drums
MIKE REED, drums, electronics

Tracklist:
1 New Myth
2. Think Tank
3. West Erie
4. Shadow Boxer’s Delight
Additional Track Information New Myth/Old Science album
5. Forget B
6. Grow Lights
7. Old Science