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Away with You

Mary Halvorson Octet · 2016 · No. 55

Context

Title track of an album by guitarist Mary Halvorson's octet released by Firehouse 12, a group which pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn joins. Halvorson's numbered compositions are played there by an ensemble of brass and reeds with Jonathan Finlayson, Jon Irabagon and Ingrid Laubrock; on this track, drummer Ches Smith is the featured soloist.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Downtown New York, No Wave. Among the origins and influences of Downtown New York, No Wave: Free jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Free improvisation and European free.

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