***BACK IN STOCK!!! Saxophonist Lenny Pickett has been a mainstay of the New York music scene for nearly forty years. From his teen years as a member of Tower of Power, to his current decades-long gig as the bandleader for Saturday Night Live, his unique, distinctive sound can be heard on recordings he made with David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Madonna, Talking Heads, Walter Hawkins, Link Wray, John Lee Hooker, Betty Davisand Elton John, to give a sampling of hundreds of recordings he’s been involved with. When he and his wife, dancer Kathy Ray, moved to New York City from the Bay Area in the late '70s the Downtown music scene was just taking off. He has since been involved with many permutations of that scene following that richly innovative time. Bad Dreams, a never-before released recording from 1988, was originally composed as a commission for choreographer Bebe Miller’s dance piece Thick Sleep. Pickett spent a summer with pencil and paper assembling the score for 72 wind instruments and 16 percussion instruments. Recording began with making percussion loops, assisted by the Fairlight sampling system, at Battery Sound recording studio. Groups of woodwinds, including 36 saxophones (of all sizes), played by Mr. Pickett were then painstakingly recorded at Philip Glass’ studio, The Living Room. The result is pure '80s experimental Downtown NYC new music, a sprawling and grand composition set against rhythmic repetition that shares characteristics with Arthur Russell’s Instrumentals, and the waves of minimalism that were crashing on...
LP $29.00
12/06/2019