| Sounds | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Rob Brown |
| Cover: | Sounds_Rob_Brown_cover.jpeg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 2007 |
| Recorded: | November 23, 2006 |
| Studio: | Firehouse 12, New Haven |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 57:39 |
| Label: | Clean Feed |
| Producer: | Rob Brown |
| Chronology: | Rob Brown |
| Prev Title: | We Are Not Obstinate Islands |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Right Hemisphere |
| Next Year: | 2008 |
Sounds is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 2006 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label. Instead of the conventional sax-bass-drums trio, it features an alternative combination with Brown on alto sax, Daniel Levin on cello and Japanese Satoshi Takeishi on a percussion set completed with taiko drums.[1]
The title track is a three-part suite composed for a multimedia performance that includes dance and visual art. It was debuted at the 2005 Vision Festival with the Nancy Zendora Dance Company and video art by Jo Wood-Brown.[2]
The All About Jazz review by Sean Patrick Fitzell notes that "The textural range of the instrumentation, particularly the exotic percussion and the music's spaciousness of form allows for non-idiomatic exploration that is not strictly free improvisation."[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "A logical move to employ Levin, given how much Brown seems to relish a singing bass tone and long, legato lines... Things as 'Stutter Step' underline how much of Brown's language still comes from the '60s avant-garde, but there is considerable more going on here."[4]
All compositions by Rob Brown except as indicated