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| 1. | Afrisong
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| 2. | The Infinitive Flow
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| 3. | Peace on You
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| 4. | Hymn To the East
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| 5. | Roots
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| 6. | Blues for M
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| 7. | The New People
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz
Muhal Richard Abrams - Piano
One of the most beautiful albums ever recorded by this legendary AACM pianist! The album's a rare Japanese-only session from 1975, and it features Muhal playing solo -- in beautifully warm spiritual tones that are very different from his playing on many other albums from the time. The work is wonderfully introspective, showing a whole new side to Abrams' genius -- the sensitive, contemplative keyboardist who occasionally emerges during some of Abrams' larger group sessions, but who usually gets pushed back in the fray of larger instrumental interplay. The whole album's extremely beautiful, and it's darn near impossible to find in the original! Tracks include "Afrisong", "The Infinitive Flow", "Hymn To The East", "Roots", and "The New People".
Muhal Richard Abrams, world renowned pianist and composer, has been in the forefront of the contemporary music scene for over forty years. He is a co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). bAfrisong/b was recorded in Chicago in 1975 by the Japanese producer Masahiko Yuh and gave Abrams the chance to display his instrumental facility and keyboard proficiency on this solo piano session, talents sometimes overshadowed by his arranging, compositional and band leading skills.
Muhal Richard Abrams seamlessy blended elements of stride, bebop, blues, and free music on this collection of solo piano pieces recorded in 1975 for the Japanese label Trio/Whynot. It was also available briefly on India Navigation. Top numbers included "Hymn to the East," "Blues For M" and the title track. It was also a chance for Abrams to display his instrumental facility and underrated keyboard skills, which often take a back seat to his arranging, compositions and bandleading.
---All Music Guide
Muhal Richard Abrams
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 19, 1930 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Progressive Big Band, Early Creative, Free Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Composer, arranger, and pianist Muhal Richard Abrams is largely a self-taught musician who was deeply influenced by the bop innovations of the late Bud Powell. Abrams has been a beacon in the jazz community as a co-founder (and first president), in 1965, of Chicago's legendary vanguard music institution, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). While Abrams is well-known as a mentor to three generations of younger musicians -- born in 1930 he was a decade older than his closest peer in the AACM -- as a bandleader and professor at the Banff Center, Columbia University, Syracuse University, and the BMI Composers' Workshop, he is not always recognized for his substantial contribution as a player and recording artist. Abrams' first gigs were playing the blues, R&B, and hard bop circuit in Chicago and working as a sideman with everyone from Dexter Gordon and Max Roach to Ruth Brown and Woody Shaw. But Abrams' own recordings reveal his strength as an innovator. His 1967 debut, Levels and Degrees of Light on Chicago's Delmark label, set the course for his own career and that of many of his AACM contemporaries, including Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Leo Smith, and Anthony Braxton. Abrams is also a conduit for the tradition. Though his music is noted for its vanguard edginess, he nonetheless bridges everything in his playing from boogie-woogie to bebop to free improv, as evidenced by Sightsong and Rejoicing With the Light, both on the Black Saint label. Abrams has been a composer that moves through the classical tradition as well. Novi, his first symphony for orchestra and jazz quartet, has been performed at various festivals, and the Kronos Quartet performed his String Quartet, No. 2.
--- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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