Monumental meeting between drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell.

The Adornment of Time is a remarkable meeting between drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell, two titans of contemporary music. Recorded live at The Kitchen in New York City, the performance is the apotheosis of fully-improvised music, a dialogue between two artists who are masters at bringing compositional form to their improvisations. Sorey has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most masterful player-composers of this era, in any idiom,” and The New Yorker declares that his work “eludes the pinging radar of genre and style. Even as his music shifts shape, it retains an obdurate purity of voice.”

• 1. The Adornment of Time (60:04)