David Murray Brave New World Trio
Seriana Promethea
2022 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 381
https://www.intaktrec.ch/381.htm
https://intaktrec./album/seriana-promethea-2

* David Murray: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
* Brad Jones  : bass
* Hamid Drake : drums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Murray_(saxophonist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Jones_(bassist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Drake

Recorded by Michael Brändli at Hardstudios Winterthur,
Zürich, Switzerland, on November 27, 2021.

Reviews
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By Peter Margasak
https://thequietus.com/articles/31593-mary-halvorson-anteloper-ches-smith-jazz-review

Considering he first emerged as a fire-breathing free jazz saxophonist in the
mid-1970s, 67-year-old David Murray ranks as a jazz elder these days, but after
a few quiet years the energy and enthusiasm he shares on this new album
suggests he’s still got some work to do. This tough new trio with drummer Hamid
Drake and bassist Brad Jones came together during the pandemic, partly as a way
the players to squeeze in some work during a fallow period, but there’s little
doubt that they clicked and have developed a serious head of steam since
November of 2020. Apart from a hard-grooving take on the Sly Stone classic ‘If
You Want Me to Stay’, the material reflects the leader’s knack for tuneful
originals that give him loads of melodic springboards for his still-boundless
improvisation zeal to chew up. The album opens jauntily, with Murray shredding
his hooky title track melody on skittering bass clarinet, playing up the funk
within its eight-bar theme, while ‘Metouka Sheli’ reveals his unimpeachable
knack for Ellingtonian balladry. While Murray may not show off any new tricks,
this is a good as I’ve heard him in decades, and the connection he has with the
rhythm section couldn’t seem deeper and more natural.

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Intakt Records
https://www.intaktrec.ch/rev381.htm

By Mark Corroto
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/brand-new-world-trio-david-murray-brad-jones-hamid-drake-intakt-records

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/david-murray-seriana-promethea-album-review

Jan Granlie (dk)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/david-murray-brad-jones-hamid-drake/

Jan van Leersum (nl)
https://rootstime.be/CD REVIEUW/2022/MEI1/CD24.html

Georges Tonla Briquet (nl)
https://www.jazzenzo.nl/?e=4891

Von Jörg Konrad (de)
https://www.kultkomplott.de/Permalink/Artikel/2557/

Von Claus Volke (de)
https://www.hoeren-und-fuehlen.de/mein-hoertipp-david-murray-brad-jones-hamid-drake-brave-new-world-trio/

Da Riccardo Talamazzi (it)
https://offtopicmagazine.net/2022/07/22/david-murray-new-brave-world-trio-seriana-promethea/

Par Claude Loxhay (fr)
https://jazzmania.be/david-murray-brave-new-world-trio/
https://www.jazzhalo.be/reviews/cdlpk7-reviews/d/david-murray-brave-new-world-trio-seriana-promethea/