Ivo Perelman - Tenorhood (2015)

For this meditation session, we ask you not to think about the legends of the tenor saxophone. Just listen to the interplay between Ivo Perelman and drummer Whit Dickey. Press play, and ignore the track titles dedicated to Hank Mobley, Ben Webster, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins. Why? Because, the saxophonist did just that when he created Tenorhood, a totally improvised collection of pieces the pair recorded in 2014.
The Brazilian-born, New York resident has released music on a scale not seen since David Murray's campaigns of the 1990s, producing more than 20 albums in the last four years. Dickey has been a part of five of the sessions. As with all his later work, this music is improvised. A switch is flipped and the magic happens. With Tenorhood, he created these titles after playback— Perelman hearing the gestures and fragments of his tenor saxophone heroes within his own creations.