| Sound Hierarchy | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Ivo Perelman |
| Cover: | Sound_hierarchy_cover.jpeg |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Recorded: | October 1996 |
| Studio: | Systems Two, Brooklyn |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 56:37 |
| Label: | Music & Arts |
| Producer: | Ivo Perelman |
| Chronology: | Ivo Perelman |
| Prev Title: | En Adir |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Strings |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Sound Hierarchy is an album by the Brazilian jazz saxophonist Ivo Perelman, recorded in 1996 and released on the Music & Arts label. He leads a quartet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, drummer Gerry Hemingway and bassist William Parker.
In his review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson states: "Short of Charles Gayle, you won't find any 1990s avant-garde jazz that is more incendiary, ferocious and violent than Sound Hierarchy."
The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "Crispell is too strong a personality to settle for the kind of subsidiary role that Perelman needs, and Hemingway's rhythms are too bracingly inventive - they offer Perelman a distraction rather than fed lines."[1]
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