Illuminate (Joe Morris and Rob Brown album)

Illuminate
Illuminate
Studio album by Joe Morris and Rob Brown
Released	1995
Recorded	November 9, 1993
Studio	Tedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	53:24
Label	Leo
Producer	Joe Morris, Rob Brown, Leo Feigin
Joe Morris chronology
Rob Brown chronology

Illuminate is an album by a quartet co-led by jazz guitarist Joe Morris and alto saxophonist Rob Brown, which was recorded in 1993 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of Leo Records. Rehearsing and recording this album was the first time the quartet worked together as a band, although Morris played with Brown before on Youniverse and the trio without Morris recorded High Wire.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek says about the album that "it's a challenging and deeply satisfying set of music by a short-lived but gifted quartet."^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "the defining characteristic of the music on Illuminate is the responsiveness of the player to one another."^[3]

Track listing

"Results" (Morris, Brown, Parker, Krall) – 11:52
"Illuminate" (Joe Morris) – 7:11
"Inklings" (Rob Brown) – 23:01
"Pivotal" (Morris, Brown, Parker, Krall) – 11:13

Personnel

References

^ Original Liner Notes by Ed Hazell
^ ^a ^b Jurek, Thom. Joe Morris – Illuminate: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1041. ISBN 0141034017.

[Liner_notes-1] Original Liner Notes by Ed Hazell

[Allmusic-2] Jurek, Thom. Joe Morris – Illuminate: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2014.

[Penguin_Guide-3] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1041. ISBN 0141034017.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Sonic Explorations (with Matthew Shipp, 1987) Breath Rhyme (1989) Youniverse (1992) Illuminate (with Joe Morris, 1993) High Wire (1993) Orbit (with Guerino Mazzola and Heinz Geisser, 1996) Scratching the Surface (with Lou Grassi, 1997) Visage (1998) Jumping Off the Page (2000) Round the Bend (2001) Likewise (with Joe Morris and Luther Gray, 2003) The Big Picture (2003) Radiant Pools (2004) Sounds (2006) Right Hemisphere (with Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, and Whit Dickey, 2006) Crown Trunk Root Funk (2007)
Live albums	Blink of an Eye (with Matthew Shipp, 1996) We Are Not Obstinate Islands (with Steve Swell and Harris Eisenstadt, 2004) Live at Firehouse 12 (2007) Unexplained Phenomena (2010) Unknown Skies (2010)