| 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Erik Friedlander |
| Cover: | 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet.jpg |
| Released: | 2010 |
| Recorded: | May 5, 2008 Kampo Studios, New York City |
| Genre: | Avant-garde, Contemporary classical music |
| Length: | 49:08 |
| Label: | Skipstone 006 |
| Producer: | Erik Friedlander |
| Chronology: | Erik Friedlander |
| Prev Title: | Broken Arm Trio |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
| Next Title: | Bonebridge |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet is an album by cellist Erik Friedlander, violinist Jennifer Choi, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, bassist Trevor Dunn, and percussionist Mike Sarin released on the Skipstone label.[1]
The Free Jazz Collective observed "Despite the incredible short length of the pieces, the overall result is quite coherent, with sometimes sudden unexpected violent intrusion in more sensitive pieces, but the contrast works well. Not only is the playing excellent, but Friedlander is full of musical ideas, sufficiently so to make the short snippets of music - sometimes quite structured, sometimes seemingly improvised - utterly compelling".[2]
Carlo Wolff stated in JazzTimes that "The musicianship is extraordinary, its fullness informing each section no matter how brief or abstract. I consider this contemporary classical music more than jazz: While certain sections skirt chaos and are resolutely dissonant, others are outright placid".[3]
All compositions by Erik Friedlander