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New - Black Diamond - Furniture Of The Mind/The Mind Rearranging - 2xLP

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Chicago's Black Diamond debuts on We Jazz Records with their new album Furniture Of the Mind Rearranging on 5th July. Co-led by Artie Black and Hunter Diamond (composers, saxophones, and other woodwinds), Black Diamond appears in both quartet and duo formations. The first three album sides present the quartet, complete with long standing band members Matt Ulery (double bass) and Neil Hemphill (drums), under the heading Furniture Of the Mind. The remaining two tracks on side D fall under the title The Mind Rearranging, with Black and Diamond presenting a meditative duo encounter of two tenor saxophones.

Furniture Of the Mind Rearranging is an assemblage of new compositions and improvisations that develop the band's established sound and exemplify the way in which this band folds into the Chicago creative music community. The quartet traverses their familiar aesthetic ranges between driving off-kilter groove, plaintive minimalism, and intimate chamber music, with the ever-present spirit of small-group jazz and a hovering influence of Chicago’s improvised music culture. And while this collection represents three previous albums and more than a decade of close kinship and artistic evolution between co-leaders Black and Diamond, neither are...  more

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releases July 5, 2024

Artie Black; tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Hunter Diamond; tenor saxophone, flute
Matt Ulery, double bass
Neil Hemphill, drums

Composed by Artie Black and Hunter Diamond
Recorded by Nick Broste at Palisade Studios, Chicago, IL
Mixed by Nick Broste
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering, Madison, WI
Vinyl cut by JSA at Timmion Cutting, Helsinki, FI
Photography by Ricardo Adame
Design by Matti Nives