Bill Orcutt – How To Rescue Things LP Colour:Black Phrases talk to and obliterate

Phrases talk to and obliterate each other

the album’s terrain is limited to six samples of female voices singing the number of the corresponding note value in the first six pitches of a major scale

A nebulous

These are songs of despair

But the execution here is impossibly sharper and

Bill Orcutt – How To Rescue Things LP Colour:Black Phrases talk to and obliterateCharlie Parker's first album with a string section landed in 1950, ten years after his debut recordings. Although the overtly lush arrangements of Charlie Parker with Strings were Parker's idea, the record must've been something of a relief to producer Norman Granz, especially when the sides went on to become Bird's best seller, by a long shot. The record (and its follow up) sparked something of a jazz strings virus, infecting Nina Simone, Paul