Four Experiments
Prolific jazz trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley today releases a four-disc box set, Four Experiments – a boundary-defying “anti-instruction-manual” to developing musical technique. Praised by The New York Times for “music of disarming intimacy,” Wooley has crafted Four Experiments as a collection of study pieces where the goal is not step-by-step instruction through known methods, but a guide to charting the uncharted. With an emphasis on expanding knowledge and loosening preconceived attitudes, Wooley’s “experiments” offer insights on composition and improvisation while infusing a uniquely human element: exploring the idea of authorship in contemporary music, mining the complexity of human interaction, and daring to find value in experiencing failure.
Four Experiments Tracklist
Experiment One: “Bray Trumpets, Blow forever in my head!”
1. Experiment One (Solo) [27:01]
2. Experiment One (Duo) [31:51]
Experiment Two: “The voices of the poor, like birds That thud against a sullen pain,”
3. Experiment Two (Solo) [18:21]
4. Experiment Two (Ensemble) [20:35]
Experiment Three: “Touched lips and quiver, as though these worn things...”
5. Experiment Three (Solo) [22:54]
6. Experiment Three (Duo I) [6:46]
7. Experiment Three (Duo II) [8:39]
8. Experiment Three (Duo III) [8:00]
Experiment Four: “I am dizzy looking at their faces;”
9. Experiment Four (Solo) [18:21]
10. Experiment Four (Trio) [20:35]
Total Time: 3:03:03