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| 1. | Rolling Thunder
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| 2. | Cyber Herod
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| 3. | Listen to the Song of Life
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| 4. | Bells
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| 5. | Offering
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| 6. | Bindo
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Jazz
Recorded: Adelaide Festival 1980
Bruce Cale - Liner Notes, Bass, Editing
Adrian Jackson Liner Notes, Annotation
Barry Smith Engineer
Barry Wade Producer
Brad Williams Engineer
Bryce Rohde Portraits
Dale Barlow Flute, Sax (Tenor), Soprano, Liner Notes
Jane March Photography
Meredith Brooks Mastering
Roger Frampton Piano
Tall Poppies Records is proud to release this fine recording of the Bruce Cale Quartet, consisting of Dale Barlow (flute and saxophones), Roger Frampton (piano), Bruce Cale (bass) and Phil Treloar (drums), each an exceptional creative musician. Recorded 24 years ago at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, these performances document a unique musical journey.
This recording is testimony to the kind of interpretive diversity Roger Frampton and Phil Treloar, in particular, were capable of creating. They were possibly the only musicians in Australia at the time exploring this level of free expression and who were capable of doing so within tightly structured contexts. They created a precedent, one which a number of the younger generation players are now exploring.
Unfortunately there is very little record anywhere of this quartet's music-making. That is one of the many reasons Tall Poppies Records is releasing this recording - an archival document that is sure to turn heads even a quarter of a century later!
For those lucky enough to have heard and seen this quartet live, and for those that come to it new, the unique level of communication that these four share in exploring Bruce Cale's compositions will astound and delight.
How unusual and fun for me to listen to and review two rather different albums by the same artist. The artist is Bruce Cale and on one CD he is playing buss in a jazz quartet, while on the other he is a composer in the classical vein (see TP188). The tracks of both CDs were recorded between 19$0 and 1990. but only released within the last few years by the Australian Tall Poppies label.
Bruce Cale's journey is an interesting one. His bass playing took him on a 12-year trek from his native Australia to the United Kingdom. the east and west coasts of the United States, and finally back to the land down under. where he is currently semi-retired from bass playing and devoting his musical energy to composing, writing in both the classical and jazz idioms. In 1980 Cale's quartet played a week-long engagement at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, and Bruce Cale Quartet Live is the recorded documentation of the last night of the run. This CD shows four splendid rnusicians forming a special band, a sum greater than the parts phenomenon. Five of the six tracks are Cale compositions (one of which is free) and one was penned by pianist Roger Frampton.
The album opens with the BOOM of Rolling Thunder, a smokin' fast swinger with a tricky melody, masterfully played by Cale and saxophonist Dale Barlow. The ensuing solos are excellent. belying the tempo. as the underlying feel changes from straight-ahead swing to broken time and pedalling, while never losing time or energy. The straight-eighth Cyber Head is next. a terrific tune which proves to be a good improvisatory vehicle for Barlow and Frampton. whose interplay on the head is great. Barlow dcmonstrates a nice linear concept in his solos and (forgive me) rare pleasing soprano sax sound. After Barlow revs everybody up, Frampton insists on a calmer starting point for his solo, demonstrating his mature musicianship. Both solos are exciting and appreciably supported by loose, open time underneath from Cale and drummer Phil Treloar. Cale get a growly sound and his basslines are often like counterpoint, though never to the point of competing with, or getting in the way of the soloist.
Other tracks, include Listen to the Song of Life, a walking ballad with an almost cIassical-and-jazz feel, a hit like Jean-Pierre Rampal's music - comparison no doubt enhanced by Barlow's choice of flute on this one. This track again features beautiful solo offerings from Frampton and Barlow. Bells is the aforementioned free tune, with fantastic sustained energy from the hand (especially Frampton) and group interplay. Offering, a pretty ballad, is Frampton's composition, and the album closes with Bindo another quick swinger, a highlight of which is Cale "staying home" and allowing Frampton and Treloar to play more freely.
---Chris Kosky, International Society of Bassists |
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