Roxy Coss - Disparate Parts (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Let's just get thing one out into the open right away: Disparate Parts has plenty of balls to spare.

Saxophonist Roxy Coss' acute, teasingly biting tone and rich, no boundaries disposition to composing and jamming has placed her high in the generational echelon of new and challenging players. She willingly and unapologetically blends and blurs the lines to suit any and all missives, and the fourteen fireballs heard loud and clear on Disparate Parts broach nothing less. Commandeering the same team of trusted cohorts that broke sharply into view on 2018's impactful The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone) and 2019's fiercely defining Quintet (Outside In)—guitarist Alex Wintz, pianist/keyboardist Miki Yamanaka, bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Jimmy Macbride hold no bars as they charge headlong into the ever cresting Disparate Parts.

Coss, seven months pregnant and ready to rumble with the best of them at recording time, opens the set briskly with "February (Take 3)," only to enter a vaguer formlessness which serves as the launch pad for the explosive "The Body." Hitting hard and often, the track crunches like classic grunge only to give way to a succession of romping, bandstand hand-offs. But Coss and company quickly pull the rug out, as Wintz blasts into a feverish slicing solo. It is startling! It is exhilarating! It is the great noise of young humans breaking from the folly of their warring elders who have locked them down for two whole years.

"The Mind" swirls into consciousness as if working its own equilibrium from the monumental track before it. With her Rhodes geared to overdrive, Yamanaka carries the tune like Chick Corea, like Herbie Hancock, like Joe Zawinul in grand fusion fervor. Coss telegraphs over Yamanaka's insistence as Macbride and Rosato drive and drive and drive. "The Heart" and "The Spirit," the last two entries to Coss's conceived suite, culminate in yet another singular Wintz solo as Coss implores or her soprano and the rhythm section washes over it all.

TRACKLIST

01. Roxy Coss - February (Take 3)
02. Roxy Coss - Part I: The Body
03. Roxy Coss - Part II: The Mind
04. Roxy Coss - Part III: The Heart
05. Roxy Coss - Part IV: The Spirit
06. Roxy Coss - February (Take 5)
07. Roxy Coss - Disparate Parts
08. Roxy Coss - Ely, MN
09. Roxy Coss - February (Take 1)
10. Roxy Coss - Mabes
11. Roxy Coss - Sunburn
12. Roxy Coss - February (Take 4)
13. Roxy Coss - Warm One
14. Roxy Coss - February (Take 2)



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