title: Sound Hierarchy
text: # Sound Hierarchy
  
  Sound Hierarchy is an album by the Brazilian jazz saxophonist Ivo Perelman, recorded in 1996 and released on the Music & Arts label. He leads a quartet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, drummer Gerry Hemingway and bassist William Parker.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
  
  In his review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson states: "Short of Charles Gayle, you won't find any 1990s avant-garde jazz that is more incendiary, ferocious and violent than Sound Hierarchy."
  
  The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "Crispell is too strong a personality to settle for the kind of subsidiary role that Perelman needs, and Hemingway's rhythms are too bracingly inventive - they offer Perelman a distraction rather than fed lines."
  
  ## Track listing
  
      All titles are collective works except as indicated
  * "Frozen Tears" - 18:54
  * "Sound Hierarchy" - 7:29
  * "Datchki Dandara" (Ivo Perelman) - 12:20
  * "Fragments" - 17:33
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Ivo Perelman - tenor sax, mouthpiece on 2
  * Marilyn Crispell - piano
  * Gerry Hemingway - drums, voice on 2
  * William Parker - bass
  