Alexander Hawkins / Tomeka Reid
Shards and Constellations
2020 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 344
https://www.intaktrec.ch/344.htm
https://alexanderhawkinsintakt./album/shards-and-constellations

* Alexander Hawkins: piano
* Tomeka Reid      : cello

https://www.alexanderhawkinsmusic.com/
https://www.tomekareid.net/

Recorded by Will Biggs at Challow Park Studios, Oxfordshire,
England, United Kingdom, on April 13th, 2019.

Reviews
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By Peter Margasak
https://thequietus.com/articles/28165-shabaka-hutchings-alexander-hawkins-tomeka-reid-jazz-review

The first recorded collaboration between British polymath pianist Alexander
Hawkins and the versatile American cellist Tomeka Reid reveals a natural
rapport that takes multiple shapes. Eight of the recording’s ten tracks are
free improvisations, most of them focusing on refined dialogues rife with
extended techniques, subtle textural shifts and quicksilver responses. The
opener 'If Becomes Is' finds Reid initially producing brittle, wandering pizz
figures that gradually morph into an elusive rhythmic thrum in sync with
Hawkins’ patient organisation of pointillistic notes into fitful, cycling
patterns. The pianist summons the sound of early free jazz piano on 'Danced
Together', with a jagged left hand chordal runs intersected by the cellist’s
toggle of clean walking lines and dissonant, plucked note clusters. The duo
seems to be of a single mind, together finding a pathway, whether abstract or
linear, regardless of how far apart them might appear at the beginning of each
piece, but that connection never opts for the glib or predictable. They also
imaginatively essay a couple of tunes from the AACM songbook.—the lyrically
yearning 'Peace On You' by Muhal Richard Abrams and the elegantly pastoral
'Albert Ayler (His Life Was Too Short)' by Leroy Jenkins—a repertoire of great
importance for both musicians.

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Intakt Records
https://www.intaktrec.ch/rev344.htm

By Stephen Griffith
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2020/06/alexander-hawkins-tomeka-reid-shards.html

By Troy Dostert
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/shards-and-constellations-alexander-hawkins-and-tomeka-reid-intakt-records

By Fiona Mactaggart
https://londonjazznews.com/2020/05/04/alexander-hawkins-tomeka-reid-shards-and-constellations/

Jan Granlie (no)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/alexander-hawkins-tomeka-reid/

Da Nicola Barin (it)
https://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2020/04/27/figli-di-un-dio-minore/