Altoist
Marco Eneidi
and tenor saxophonist
Glenn Spearman
in 1995 led
the Creative Music Orchestra
, a very crowded 21-piece orchestra also including two violins, two basses, two drummers/percussionists, two trumpets, three other tenors, two altos, three clarinets, two guitars, and one piano. On this CD they record the six-part
"American Jungle Suite."
Four of the movements are by
Eneidi
, one is by
Spearman
, and one piece is borrowed from
Cecil Taylor
. The music is unremittingly atonal, often quite dense and ferocious. The musicians (which mix together a few veterans with many younger players) handle the difficult music quite well although all but the most open-eared
jazz
collectors might find some of the more intense passages almost unlistenable. This set does grow in interest with each listen. ~ Scott Yanow