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| 1. | Laja
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| 2. | View from Within
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| 3. | Personal Conversations
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| 4. | Down at Peppers
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| 5. | Positrain
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| 6. | Inner Lights
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Jazz / Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Muhal Richard Abrams - Gong, Paintings, Piano
David Baker Engineer
Gennaro Carone Mastering
Giovanni Bonandrini Producer
Hale Smith Liner Notes
Isio Saba Photography
John Purcell Flute, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Soprano)
Marty Ehrlich Sax (Tenor), Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Alto), Flute, Piccolo
Ray Mantilla Bongos, Drums, Percussion, Conga
Stanton Davis, Jr. Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Thurman Barker Bells, Drums, Marimba, Orchestra Bells, Gong
Warren Smith Marimba, Gong, Vibraphone
Abrams' work for mid-sized groups varies markedly from his solo, trio, or large orchestra material. Compositions are even more unpredictable, there's more emphasis on mood and less on rhythm, and solos are crisper and shorter. This '84 date included some intriguing instrumental configurations at times (vibes/flute/percussion, piano/clarinet/bass clarinet) and ranked among his best '80s dates. ~ Ron Wynn, 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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