{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Song for My Sister | type = studio | artist = Roscoe Mitchell | cover = Song_for_my_sister_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 2002 | recorded = February 2002 | venue = | studio = Audio for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin | genre = Jazz | length = 60:14 | label = Pi Recordings | producer = | chronology = Roscoe Mitchell | prev_title = 8 O'Clock: Two Improvisations | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = The Bad Guys | next_year = 2003 }}
'''''Song for My Sister''''' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell which was recorded in 2002 and released on Pi Recordings. It was the third studio recording by the Note Factory, a nonet with twin rhythm sections.<ref name="Pi">[http://pirecordings.com/album/pi03 ''Song for My Sister''] at Pi Recordings</ref> Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn will later record duo album ''The Transitory Poems'' in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |last1=MCCLENAGHAN |first1=DAN |title=DAN MCCLENAGHAN March 7, 2019 |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-transitory-poems-vijay-iyer-and-craig-taborn-ecm-records-review-by-dan-mcclenaghan.php |website=All About Jazz |access-date=7 March 2019 |date=March 7, 2019}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide"/> }} In his review for AllMusic, Don Snowden states "''Song for My Sister'' is a strong album that takes in a wide variety of musical settings—short pieces, long pieces, excursions into tradition, textures, and abstraction—without losing cohesiveness. It's an always interesting journey."<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Snowden|first=Don|class=album|id=mw0000660747|title=Roscoe Mitchell – ''Song for my Sister'': Review|accessdate=January 9, 2015}}</ref>
''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' says "As an entity, the ensemble feels shapeless in the way it handles various talents, and Mitchell himself never imposes enough of himself to unite it all."<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD|edition = 6th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2002|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0140515216|pages = 1042}}</ref>
In a review for ''JazzTimes'' Bill Shoemaker notes that "The deepest aspect of ''Song for My Sister'' is that it is merely a glimpse of Mitchell's potential with the Note Factory."<ref name="JazzTimes">Shoemaker, Bill. [http://jazztimes.com/articles/13334-song-for-my-sister-roscoe-mitchell-the-note-factory ''Song for My Sister'' review] at ''JazzTimes''</ref>
The ''BBC'' review by Bill Tilland states "Overall, this CD puts on display the diversity of Mitchell's musical vision, and while most listeners will respond more fully to some of its elements than to others, everything here is eminently worthy of attention."<ref name="BBC">Tilland, Bill. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/n9p2/ ''Song for My Sister'' review] at ''BBC''</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell'' # "Song for My Sister" – 10:55 # "Sagitta" – 4:18 # "this" – 9:07 # "When the Whistle Blows" – 3:36 # "The Megaplexian" – 4:54 # "Step One, Two, Three" – 8:28 # "The Inside of a Star" – 3:02 # "Wind Change" – 11:26 # "Count-Off" – 4:38
==Personnel== *Roscoe Mitchell - soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, flute, bass recorder, great bass recorder, percussion *Leon Dorsey, Jaribu Shahid - bass *Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn - piano *Vincent Davis - drums, percussion *Gerald Cleaver - drums, marimba *Spencer Barefield - guitars *Corey Wilkes - trumpet ;Special Guest: *Anders Svanoe - clarinet, bass clarinet *Willy Walter - bassoon *Janse H. Vincent - violin *Nels Bultmann - viola
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Category:2002 albums Category:Roscoe Mitchell albums Category:Pi Recordings albums