Search - Perry Robinson & Steve Swell :: Invisible Cities

"Invisible Cities brings two generations of improvisers together in their first duo recording...a tour de force of improvisational intimacy." The recording features Perry Robinson, who almost single handedly kept the jazz clarinet tradition throughout the 1960s-80s, and Steve Swell, New York City's young keeper of the jazz trombone flame. On Invisible Cities Swell and Perry speak a language that those outside their realm of understanding and knowing rarely experience a language that expands the Art of the Duet. The title is an homage to Italo Calvino's great 20th century novel, Le Cit Invisibili, in which the Kublai Khan realizes that the many tales Marco Polo has spun about many wondrous cities are, in fact, all about the same city. Calvino wrote about a world where fantasy, reality, and philosophy became intermingled and inseparable with no past and no future. On Invisible Cities, Swell and Robinson, like Calvino, create a musical world where influence, genre, style, and tradition meld in the creation of a new musical reality with no past and no future."