Scott Amendola and Phillip Greenlief

One of the most engaging team-ups in exploratory jazz celebrates 30
years of simpatico collaboration and creativity with the release of Stay
With It, their first outing on the Clean Feed imprint. It finds Phillip
Greenlief and Scott Amendola developing the febrile dialogues
mapped out on their deliciously bristling 1995 debut, Collect My
Thoughts, an absorbing set that saw the pair garner considerable
international plaudits, inspiring them to further cultivate their
connection through regular touring expeditions.

Three decades on, Greenlief and Amendola remain fully dedicated
to their punchy, snaking exchanges, with hyper-dynamic tracks such as
‘Morpheteria’ and ‘Eloquent Turbulence’ building on the bountiful
foundations of previous works, drums and horns locked in gloriously
kinetic convulsions. But Stay With It also signals an evolution, borne
of shared insight and artistic understanding, the duo inaugurating “a
theatre of the unexpected”, as they mine acutely textural passages
augmented by Amendola’s implementation of live electronics. The
granular, parping abstractions of ‘Microfiche’ recall peak Supersilent
in meditative cyborg mode, while ‘Farfalle en Mare’’s subtle
amalgams of distorted sax exhaust and mutant cymbal-sourced static
underline the duo’s commitment to exploring intriguing alien
interzones nestled between free jazz and electro-acoustic espionage.

While their distinguished careers have seen them share stage and
studio with eminent artists ranging from Alice Coltrane, Susan Alcorn
and Nels Cline to Mike Patton, Manuel Mota and John Zorn, it is
often within this special tandem formation, so adroitly captured on
Stay With It, where Greenlief and Amendola conjure their most
personal and profound creations.

Phillip: alto and tenor saxophones, Bb clarinet
Scott: drums/percussion/electronics

www.scottamendola.com
www.phillipgreenlief.com