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ROOTS to SHOOTS opens with a rollicking, surging La Fiesta recorded live at Catskill, NY’s Bridge Street Theatre within the summer heat wave of 2022. Right from the downbeat, Moss’s soprano saxophone joyously exclaims Chick Corea’s melody built into a samba of grand proportions. Tireless drummer/percussionist Ismael Baiz, hailing from Caracas, explodes all over this track along with pianist Alexis Marcelo, and bassist Adam Lane. The rhythm section, essential artists all, are woefully under-feted within New York’s overstuffed, varicose jazz scene. Only senior luminaries such as Michael Moss have the informed vigilance to recognize such immediate brilliance within a sea of mastery. Happily, you the listener, will get to enjoy such “sidemen” again and again in this collection.

QUANTUM BUTTERFLY

VOLUME 1 ROOTS to SHOOTS

La Fiesta (Chick Correa), Bridge Street Theatre, 7.23.2022 10:39

Michael Moss (soprano saxophone), Alexis Marcelo (piano, synthesizer), Adam Lane (contrabass), Ismael Baiz (drums, cajon, percussion)

Coal Sack (Michael Moss), Little Island, 9.8.2021 9:19

Michael Moss (soprano saxophone), Warren Smith (vibes), Adam Lane (bass), Ismael Baiz (drums), Michael Wimberly (djembe, African bells, African percussion, djembe)

Come Sunday (Duke Ellington), Saint John’s in the Village Revelation Gallery, 10.23.21 10:38

Michael Moss (bass clarinet), Warren Smith (vibes), Adam Lane (bass)

Sa La’am Mi/My Peace (Michael Moss), Little Island, 9.8.2021 9:23

Michael Moss (soprano saxophone), Warren Smith (vibes), Adam Lane (bass), Ismael Baiz (drums), Michael Wimberly (djembe, African bells, African percussion, djembe)

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Charles Mingus), Saint John’s in the Village Revelation Gallery, 10.23.21 8:29

Michael Moss (tenor sax), Alexis Marcello (Steinway piano), Warren Smith (vibes), Adam Lane (bass), Ismael Baiz (drums)

AmithabaWarren Smith Drum Solo , Little Island, 9.8.2021 12:42

Amithaba (Michael Moss), Michael Moss (soprano saxophone), Warren Smith (vibes), Adam Lane (bass), Ismael Baiz (drums), Michael Wimberly (djembe, African bells, African percussion, djembe),

Warren Smith drum solo (Warren Smith, drums)

I Don’t Want No Trouble at the River (Margaret Douroux), Little Island, 9.8.2021 7:38

Michael Moss (flute), Bobby Harden (vocals), Michael Wimberly (piano), Warren Smith (drums), Ismael Baiz (bongos, cajon)

. What Do You Call It? I Call It Love (Bobby Harden), Little Island, 9.8.2021 6:03

Bobby Harden (vocals), Michael Moss (tenor saxophone), Michael Wimberly (piano), Warren Smith (drums), Ismail Baiz (cajon, bongos)

74:51

VOLUME 2 ENSEMBLE BOWS FOR STRINGS, PIANO AND REEDS

Michael Moss, Composer, Conductor, Artistic Director

Abyss (Michael Moss), Westbeth Home to the Arts, 5.5.2023 19:06

Michael Moss (Bb Clarinet), Rosi Hertlein (Violin), Sunjay Jayaram (Violin), Melanie Dyer (Viola), Lenny Mims (Cello), Ken Filiano (Bass), Anthony Coleman (Piano)

Far Away (Sorin Lerescu, Op. 89, 2023). World Premiere. Commissioned by Michael Moss. Westbeth Home to the Arts, 5.5.2023 11:08

Michael Moss (Bb Clarinet), Rosi Hertlein (Violin), Sunjay Jayaram (Violin), Melanie Dyer (Viola), Lenny Mims (Cello), Ken Filiano (Bass), Anthony Coleman (Piano)

ENSEMBLE BOWS FOR STRINGS, PIANO AND BASS CLARINET

Michael Moss: Composer, Conductor, Artistic Director

Saint John’s in the Village; Family Threads Performance 10.22.2022

Elegy for Danny – (Daniel Canner 1950—2004), (Michael Moss), Saint John’s in the Village; Family Threads Performance , 10.22.2022 8:26
Ain Soph (Michael Moss), Saint John’s in the Village; Family Threads Performance , 20:21

Michael Moss: Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Snake Charmer; Violin: Rosi Hertlein, Sana Nagano, Trina Basu, Liz Taub; Viola: Alexandra Honigsberg, Jon Kass; Cello: Lenny Mims, Jake Charkey; Contrabass: Ratzo Harris; Piano: Alexis Marcelo

59:01

VOLUME 3 QUANTUM BUTTERFLY

Amithaba (Michael Moss), Saint John’s in the Village, Revelation Gallery, 10.23.2021 10:59

Michael Moss (tenor saxophone), Alexis Marcello (Steinway piano), Warren Smith (vibes), Adam Lane (bass), Ismael Baiz (drums)

Recording engineer—Ismael Baiz, Mastered by Ismael Baiz, Latino Experimental Records

Samson’s Walk (Michael Moss), Bridge Street Theatre, 7.23.2022 9:23

Michael Moss (tenor saxophone), Alexis Marcelo (piano, synthesizer), Adam Lane (contrabass), Myron Cohen (drums)

Recording engineer—Ismael Baiz & Rafael Urbina, Latino Experimental Records

Quantum Butterfly Adjacent Possibles (ATMOS, Headphones), Bridge Street Theatre, 5.1, 7.1 24:52

70:06

Michael Moss (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), Alexis Marcelo (piano, synthesizer), Adam Lane (contrabass), Ismael Baiz (drums, cajon, percussion)

Quantum Butterfly/Adjacent Possibles is an electroacoustic collaboration of composers James Dashow(electronics) and Michael Moss. Quantum Butterfly/Adjacent Possibles is in stereo for hifi systems in the stereo soundfile, and in the ATMOS version 5.1 stereo, 7.1 stereo, binaural (best for earphones), and ATMOS, a revolutionary sound enveloping environment placing the listener in the center of the aural environment.

To clarify, the ATMOS soundfile will configure itself to the sound system of the purchaser automatically so there is no need to purchase a different version for each system. ATMOS is the preferred listening preference with this piece as it features the electronics in six channels/speakers with the audience seated in the center, making the sounds come from all around, over and under the listener. Also, the ATMOS version is a very large file which will play only on the platform (iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify, etc.), while the stereo version is a smaller file which is available for all stereos. ,

VOLUME 4 ROOTS TO SHOOTS AT WESTBETH September 5, 2025

Left Alone (Eric Dolphy), Michael Moss (flute) 9:01
Afro Blue (John Coltrane, Mongo Santa Maria), Michael Moss (soprano saxophone) 5:55
TTTT (Bill Evans), Michael Moss (soprano saxophone) 8:31
Equinox (John Coltrane) Michael Moss (tenor saxophone) 12:03
Syeeda’s Song Flute (John Coltrane), Michael Moss (tenor saxophone) 10:31
Transitions (John Coltrane) Michael Moss (tenor saxophone) 10:23
March On (Michael Moss), Michael Moss (tenor saxophone) 7:58

Michael Moss (reeds), Alexis Marcelo (piano, synthesizer), Adam Lane (contrabass), Jackson Krall (drums)

The helix: a recurrent spiral that returns to the place of origin but never repeats itself; a spiral of creativity. The helix is a metaphor for revisiting and developing past musical ideas, inventions and pieces I want to expand (or contract) so I can grow as a musician, a composer and a performer. Helical structures include ribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleic acid, the two fundamental organic molecular protein-like folded life-giving nucleotides–RNA and DNA.

A helix, in this case HELIX, gives life to beautiful music from a distant future and a primitive past all in the moment, all in the now. The Accidental Orchestra brings new life to the old metaphorical truths of justice and injustice where justice is the note-choice and injustice the same note-choice heading from the future into the past just as particles and anti-particles interact–the particle is going into the future and the anti-particle is heading in the opposite temporal direction, all on the quantum time level. That’s how fast the music is and how fast our quantum brains are operating to play this music, and how quickly your quantum brains instantly understand the music even if it’s unfamiliar to you. It is like a circle where there is no end but you eternally return to the same place but in a different temporal dimension.

http://michaelmoss.bandcamp.com/album/free-play

HI everyone. Announcing the digital-only cd release of FREE PLAY, (4th Stream Records, ERG 2015), the first cd recorded by the New York Free Quartet. Please follow the above link to our bandcamp.com webpage to listen to and to purchase individual tracks or the entire album.

We are excited to introduce ourselves on this beautifully recorded, mixed and mastered cd: Free Play. Each cut is only $1 and the entire cd is only $10. I hope you follow the link and listen to Un/Known, featuring urban folk music and poetry by our bassist, Larry Roland. There are several poems on the cd. We play both freely created and composed pieces. On Eat, Lay Eggs and Run only non-western instruments such as the shofar, the rikkidichi, the shakuhachi, and the Thai khean form emergent and primitive motivs.

Recorded in July, 2014 at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, the music was mixed by myself and my old friend John Shea who appeared on all of my previous releases on 4th Stream Records. It was mastered by Jeff Jones, The Jedi Master, Director and Producer of World Alert Productions and friend of our drummer, Chuck Fertal. Cover art is by our pianist/shakuhachi, Steve Cohn.

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