Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Gesprächsfetzen by Marion Brown / Gunter Hampel, released on Calig in 1968

Matthew Wright wrote for Jazz Journal:

"...There’s a pattern here of calm beginnings, sometimes just alto and vibes, feeling their way round each other, joined by other instruments which, after Ambrose Jackson’s trumpet clarion call on Gesprächsfetzen, build to intensity, Steve McCall pushing menacingly and urgently. Likewise, ethereal vibes and percussion interrupt the ongoing storm on Tomorrow Is The Beginning...

...An album of contrasts, exploring the divergence, variation and spontaneity within free jazz at the time."

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/03/22/marion-brown-gesprachsfetzen-in-sommerhausen/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDbNM_lLm7k&list=OLAK5uy_lX-4QWmqd6hUxLcptXD-bemN8x63t21NM&index=1

#MarionBrown #GunterHampel #SteveMcCall #FreeJazz #Jazz #Music

Sweet Space is a live album by the Billy Bang Sextet, led by violinist Bang, and featuring tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe, alto saxophonist Luther Thomas, cornetist Butch Morris, pianist Curtis Clark, double bassist Wilber Morris, and drummer Steve McCall. It was recorded on November 15, 1979, at the Loeb Student Center of New York University in New York City, and was released on vinyl later that year by Anima Productions.

Bill Shoemaker of Point of Departure commented: "each musician played an integral role in creating an ebullient, deceptively shambling ensemble sound," and stated that Butch Morris's "Music for the Love of It" "has a supple grace that makes it a fine set-closer, possessing enough elasticity for each musician to momentarily stretch the material without disfiguring it." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5TPhy0iYXs

#billybang #franklowe #butchmorris #stevemccall #freejazz #jazzviolin

Air Time is an album by the improvisational collective Air, released in 1978. Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall, and Fred Hopkins perform three of Threadgill's compositions and one each by Hopkins and McCall.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection, stating: "Listening in detail to its five tracks ...helps illuminate much of the group's language, its vivid exploitation of splintered tempi, deliberately awkward and raucous phrasing, devices from other musical traditions ...and most particularly the use of percussion as another voiced and pitched instrument"

Wikipedia

#air #airtime #freejazz #henrythreadgill #stevemccall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYBk2XrWms4