Illuminate (Joe Morris and Rob Brown album)

1995 studio album by Joe Morris and Rob Brown

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
| Symbolic Gesture
(1994)  | Illuminate
(1995)  | No Vertigo
(1995)

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Rob Brown chronology
| Youniverse
(1992)  | Illuminate
(1995)  | High Wire
(1996)

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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

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Professional ratingsReview 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

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

## Personnel

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* Joe Morris \- guitar
* Rob Brown – alto sax
* William Parker – bass
* Jackson Krall – drums

## References

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1. ^ Original Liner Notes by Ed Hazell
2. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Joe Morris – Illuminate: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
3. ^ 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.

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Joe Morris

Studio albums|

* Sweatshop (1990)
* Flip and Spike (1992)
* Symbolic Gesture (1994)
* Illuminate (1995)
* Elsewhere (1996)
* You Be Me (1997)
* Antennae (1997)
* Racket Club (1998)
* Like Rays (1998)
* A Cloud of Black Birds (1998)
* Deep Telling (1999)
* Many Rings (1999)
* Underthru (1999)
* Soul Search (2000)
* Singularity (2001)
* Age of Everything (2002)
* Likewise (2003)
* Beautiful Existence (2005)
* Rebus (2007)
* High Definition (2008)
* Wildlife (2009)
* Colorfield (2009)
* Today on Earth (2009)
* Camera (2010)
* Traits (2011)
* Balance (2014)
* Red Hill (2014)
* Geometry of Distance (2019)

Live albums|

* Invisible Weave (1997)
* At the Old Office (2000)
* Out Right Now (2001)
* Altitude (2012)

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Rob Brown

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)

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