The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC, by The MacroQuarktet

The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC

by The MacroQuarktet

supported by

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$12 USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
2CD double disc of The MacroQuarktet - The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC (OOYH 006) Volumes One + Two, featuring a full inside spread of original artwork (CD only) by TJ Huff (huffart.com).

Includes unlimited streaming of The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 3 days

$15 USD or more

1.	Neuroplasticity pt. 1 03:04	buy track
2.	Neuroplasticity pt. 2 09:55	buy track
3.	Neuroplasticity pt. 3 10:43	buy track
4.	Ducks & Geese ... Or Rabbits? pt. 1 06:22	buy track
5.	Ducks & Geese ... Or Rabbits? pt. 2 10:06	buy track
6.	Ducks & Geese ... Or Rabbits? pt. 3 05:08	buy track
7.	Ducks & Geese ... Or Rabbits? pt. 4 03:07	buy track
8.	Basal D. Ganglia pt. 1 03:37	buy track
9.	Basal D. Ganglia pt. 2 04:04	buy track
10.	Basal D. Ganglia pt. 3 04:03	buy track
11.	Crossing the Threshold pt. 1 09:00	buy track
12.	Crossing the Threshold pt. 2 10:11	buy track
13.	Crossing the Threshold pt. 3 07:40	buy track
14.	Crossing the Threshold pt. 4 07:09	buy track
15.	Crossing the Threshold pt. 5 09:55	buy track
16.	No Planet B pt. 1 04:08	buy track
17.	No Planet B pt. 2 05:13	buy track

about

Dave Ballou - trumpet
Herb Robertson - trumpet
Drew Gress - bass
Tom Rainey - drums

To those familiar with the NYC downtown music scene of the 80s and 90s, trumpeters Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou need no introduction. Having collaborated with the likes of Tim Berne, John Zorn, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Dewey Redman, and countless others, both were at the center of what was one of the most formative eras for experimental and improvised music to date. In performance, the most common meeting place for trumpet players is within the section of a big band or large ensemble, and together Robertson and Ballou have performed in the Satoko Fuji Orchestra and Orange Then Blue. However, after the recording session for Satoko Fuji’s Undulation Herb and Dave identified it as essential to play together in a smaller format. In a quartet (with the addition of Drew Gress on bass and Tom Rainey on drums) each of their unique approaches to both improvisation and the trumpet would be the central focus, and highlighted in a way not possible in a large ensemble. Thus The MacroQuarktet (a portmanteau combining both the whole view as well as the detailed) was formed. The Complete Night: Live at The Stone NYC documents their first performance from June 30, 2007, available here in its entirety for the first time ever.

credits

released May 1, 2020

Recorded live at the Stone NYC on June 30, 2007 by Jon Rosenberg.
Remixed and remastered by Jon Rosenberg February 2019.
Artwork, layout, and design by TJ Huff (huffart.com).
Volume One is a reissue of the album titled Each Part Whole, originally released on Ruby Flower in 2009.
Volume Two is the second set from the night, and the recording is being presented here for the first time.
Both CDs present long improvisations and have been given index markers placed at musically appropriate points. They are presented here as one continuous album, but Volume One ends with the track Basal D. Ganglia (track 10) and Volume Two begins with Crossing the Threshold (track 11).

OOYH 006

license

about

Out Of Your Head Records New York

An artist-run Brooklyn-based record label dedicated to creative music and original visual art in limited runs.

outofyourheadrecords.com

contact / help

Contact Out Of Your Head Records

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC, you may also like:

Both Are True
by Webber/Morris Big Band

supported by 40 fans who also own “The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC”

This albums has some fantastic writing, and is beautifully arranged and recorded. For fans of more modern experimental big band. AGarant
go to album
The Coandă Effect
by Tim Berne and Nasheet Waits

supported by 29 fans who also own “The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC”
go to album
Ism
by Junius Paul

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 22, 2019
go to album
Futura Marge, Vol. 3
by Various Artists

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 3, 2020
go to album
Blues And News
by Hal Singer

featured on Bandcamp Radio May 26, 2020
go to album
Sacred Vowels
by Tim Berne

supported by 29 fans who also own “The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC”

Magnificent pieces for solo saxophone rat
go to album
Pillars
by Tyshawn Sorey

supported by 29 fans who also own “The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC”

Total mastery of patience, time, and drama create a constantly engaging journey that never gets tiresome or same-y: in fact the harder you listen the better it gets! Somehow Sorey et al. find a way to combine the deep listening and spontaneous interaction of the best jazz with the sense of every tone and sound being worth a universe of listening, which could be equally from Cage and Feldman or the accompaniment to an ancient ritual. The recording/engineering is absolutely perfect as well. Giles
go to album