The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
ASIN: B00005MKD5
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1. So Low
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2. Deep Purple
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3. Side Pipers
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4. My Funny Valentine - Jimmy Giuffre
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5. Quiet Cook
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6. Sheepherder
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7. Fascinating Rhythm
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8. Down Home
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The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
Jimmy Giuffre
Manufacturer: Collectables
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Binding: Audio CD
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- Western Suite
- The Easy Way
- Original Trio
- The Jimmy Giuffre 3 / The Music Man
- 1961
ASIN: B00005MKD5
Release Date: 2001-08-14 |
Tracks:
- So Low
- Deep Purple
- Side Pipers
- My Funny Valentine - Jimmy Giuffre
- Quiet Cook
- Sheepherder
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Down Home
Customer Reviews:
Giuffre Rules!.......2001-08-21
One of the truly underrated jazz musicians in the modern idiom, Jimmy Giuffre occupies an important position as an innovative and experimental composer, to be sure, but he is, above all, a tremendously soulful performer. While this `50s album may be said to adumbrate Giuffre's monumental "folk-jazz" compositions or the slightly later "The Jimmy Giuffre Three," it stands on its own in terms of its unique contribution in the history of jazz clarinet playing. Almost a half century ago, Giuffre opted for "soft jazz" (no relation to the ersatz "smooth jazz" of today!), which on this disc is as powerful and moving as any jazz you'll ever hear.
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- A strange musical exploration worth investigation
- Out on a Limb
- If you gush over Streisand and Diana Ross, this is not for u
- twelve tonality meets jazz
- Free Fall: An Appropriate Title
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Free Fall
Jimmy Giuffre
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Similar Items:
- 1961
- Lenox Avenue Breakdown
- The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
- Machine Gun
- Point of Departure
ASIN: B0000247OV
Release Date: 2007-01-16 |
Tracks:
- Propulsion
- Three We
- Ornothoids
- Dichotomy
- Man Alone
- Spasmodic
- Yggdrasill
- Divided Man
- Primordial Call
- Five Ways
- Present Notion
- Motion Suspended
- Future Plans
- Past Mistakes
- Time Will Tell
- Let's See
Amazon.com
Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre was solidly established as the leader of unorthodox but coolly restrained groups when he enlisted pianist Paul Bley and bassist Steve Swallow in 1961. With this trio, he would take listeners into challenging terrain and offer the avant-garde a different direction--witness the 2-CD reissue 1961. Often taking its style cues from European modernism, this group mixed pointillism and atonality while moving seamlessly between composition and free improvisation. Free Fall, from 1962, was the group's ultimate recording and Giuffre's most radical statement, balancing duos and trios with unaccompanied clarinet improvisations that explored novel sounds, spontaneous structure, and uncommon brevity. Quietly revolutionary and brilliant in itself, this music was the culmination of the "Third Stream" synthesis and also paved the way for a younger generation of radicals. Today it still sounds fresh. This CD restores edited portions and adds five unissued clarinet solos that range from spiky inventions to the original lyricism of "Future Plans." -- Stuart Broomer
Customer Reviews:
A strange musical exploration worth investigation.......2003-02-24
This is one of those albums which, before you can be truly critical of it, you must understand what it is.
This album was made with the understanding that some, indeed maybe large chunks, may not "work", or that it may only appeal or connect with small numbers of people. When reviewed with this understanding in mind I must give it 4 stars; the album is a unique direction in free jazz; the jazz rhythm section was very much still a part of free jazz at this point and the idea of taking more of a "Euro" approach, with a chamber "ensemble" idea (and henceforth removing the pulsating drums), is an interesting one.
It has always been easy for me to detect whether free music is just self indulgent junk or intelligently crafted sound sculpture, and this one is firmly in the latter category. In the lp notes, Swallow discusses the long rehearsals and the intensity of them. You can hear the results of this hard work in the album.
However this album stops just short of total perfection for my taste; I think that the group should have been exploited far more; "The Five Ways" works so much better than the solo clarinet improvisations; the solo things are fine, but the balance between those and the ensemble numbers are not quite where they should be.
However, this sort of problem always exists with records that try to reinvent the musical wheel, so this is certainly forgiveable; had the group stayed on longer in the sixties they probably would have had records that would develop on what worked so well on Free Fall.
Still, this album is a classic; as a composer and guitarist there is much for me to learn from Giuffre's unique approach.
Out on a Limb.......2002-02-24
There once was a Lennie Tristano tune called "Out on a Limb", but while the pianist's contributions to the realm of free music has been known for decades, this Giuffre album has been a hidden treasure for more than 30 years ... and I can't help asking why?!
Perhaps because this music can't be defined as jazz in the purest sense, it's obviously white and bears no traces of black improvised music at all. By the time of the recording ('62) Jimmy Giuffre had found a musical language all his own and even abandoned his well-known clarinet chalumeau sound, which had rightfully made him one of the princes of the 50's West Coast Scene, in order to develop something new, though you'll still recognize him very easily. The music has much in common with European improvised music, Schoenberg unmistakably just around the corner. It doesn't swing , except for some bars where especially Steve Swallow shows that this is a jazz ensemble after all. But it's not merely an experiment but an accomplished
invention, almost a feat. The trio is undoubtedly well-rehearsed and that makes me wonder why JG relied so much on playing solo, where he encounters his creative limits sometimes before he has come to a logic end. It leaves something to desire, even more he would never again be given the opportunity to record with musicians of that calibre (Swallow/Bley) for a major company.
But they were really "out on a limb" and one only needs to take a glimpse at the current improvised music landscape in Europe to discover that this group was a tough forerunner.
If you gush over Streisand and Diana Ross, this is not for u.......2001-08-07
Too bad Mickey Trotter's one-star review had to pull this down. Check out his More About Me page....stick with Motown and La Streisand, Mick. Also, I don't believe you really like Ornette's Shape of Jazz to Come...Free Fall is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention. Free jazz, as great as much of it was, would have benefited from a solid dose of Giuffre's influence.
twelve tonality meets jazz.......2000-06-26
mr. giuffre took a hard left turn as the 1960s opened making him almost unrecognizable to his original fans (he was part of woody herman's thundering herd and has a single enshrined in the grammy hall of fame), exploring european classical structures and sound in general, much like cecil taylor, ornette coleman, and, later, john coltrane. on this record, we hear the experiment in its fullest expression: tension building silences, two and three note conversations in the trio format, angular rhythms and spiky tonalities. each piece unfolds with each note played, drawing the listener in, but it requires attention. this is not background music, this must be LISTENED to for it make its impact. mr. bley continues to reval his avant-cool expression of the '50s and '60s and the real treasure here is steve swallow-- an early example of his bass meisterwork. this is an enjoyable free jazz work with highlights being the clarinet solo pieces (ornothoids, divided man, man alone) and the long piece 'five ways'which really lets us hear the trio at work. a fascinating gem from the early free jazz period.
Free Fall: An Appropriate Title.......2000-06-06
Only for those who like their Avante-Garde Jazz DULL, or who think that if something is BORING it must be high-brow. An hour of listening to your hair grow would be more entertaining! For an infinitely better representation of A-G Jazz, and a vastly more exciting listening experience, try Ornette Coleman's "The Shape of Jazz to Come."
Average customer rating:
- A strange musical exploration worth investigation
- Out on a Limb
- If you gush over Streisand and Diana Ross, this is not for u
- twelve tonality meets jazz
- Free Fall: An Appropriate Title
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Free Fall
Jimmy Giuffre
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Avant Garde & Free Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Cool Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- 1961
- Lenox Avenue Breakdown
- The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
- Machine Gun
- Point of Departure
ASIN: B00000ADKN
Release Date: 1998-09-01 |
Tracks:
- Propulsion
- Threewe
- Ornothoids
- Dichotomy
- Man Alone
- Spasmodic
- Yggdrasill
- Divided Man
- Primordial Call
- The Five Ways
- Present Notion
- Motion Suspended
- Future Plans
- Past Mistakes
- Time Will Tell
- Let's See
Amazon.com
Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre was solidly established as the leader of unorthodox but coolly restrained groups when he enlisted pianist Paul Bley and bassist Steve Swallow in 1961. With this trio, he would take listeners into challenging terrain and offer the avant-garde a different direction--witness the 2-CD reissue 1961. Often taking its style cues from European modernism, this group mixed pointillism and atonality while moving seamlessly between composition and free improvisation. Free Fall, from 1962, was the group's ultimate recording and Giuffre's most radical statement, balancing duos and trios with unaccompanied clarinet improvisations that explored novel sounds, spontaneous structure, and uncommon brevity. Quietly revolutionary and brilliant in itself, this music was the culmination of the "Third Stream" synthesis and also paved the way for a younger generation of radicals. Today it still sounds fresh. This CD restores edited portions and adds five unissued clarinet solos that range from spiky inventions to the original lyricism of "Future Plans." -- Stuart Broomer
Customer Reviews:
A strange musical exploration worth investigation.......2003-02-24
This is one of those albums which, before you can be truly critical of it, you must understand what it is.
This album was made with the understanding that some, indeed maybe large chunks, may not "work", or that it may only appeal or connect with small numbers of people. When reviewed with this understanding in mind I must give it 4 stars; the album is a unique direction in free jazz; the jazz rhythm section was very much still a part of free jazz at this point and the idea of taking more of a "Euro" approach, with a chamber "ensemble" idea (and henceforth removing the pulsating drums), is an interesting one.
It has always been easy for me to detect whether free music is just self indulgent junk or intelligently crafted sound sculpture, and this one is firmly in the latter category. In the lp notes, Swallow discusses the long rehearsals and the intensity of them. You can hear the results of this hard work in the album.
However this album stops just short of total perfection for my taste; I think that the group should have been exploited far more; "The Five Ways" works so much better than the solo clarinet improvisations; the solo things are fine, but the balance between those and the ensemble numbers are not quite where they should be.
However, this sort of problem always exists with records that try to reinvent the musical wheel, so this is certainly forgiveable; had the group stayed on longer in the sixties they probably would have had records that would develop on what worked so well on Free Fall.
Still, this album is a classic; as a composer and guitarist there is much for me to learn from Giuffre's unique approach.
Out on a Limb.......2002-02-24
There once was a Lennie Tristano tune called "Out on a Limb", but while the pianist's contributions to the realm of free music has been known for decades, this Giuffre album has been a hidden treasure for more than 30 years ... and I can't help asking why?!
Perhaps because this music can't be defined as jazz in the purest sense, it's obviously white and bears no traces of black improvised music at all. By the time of the recording ('62) Jimmy Giuffre had found a musical language all his own and even abandoned his well-known clarinet chalumeau sound, which had rightfully made him one of the princes of the 50's West Coast Scene, in order to develop something new, though you'll still recognize him very easily. The music has much in common with European improvised music, Schoenberg unmistakably just around the corner. It doesn't swing , except for some bars where especially Steve Swallow shows that this is a jazz ensemble after all. But it's not merely an experiment but an accomplished
invention, almost a feat. The trio is undoubtedly well-rehearsed and that makes me wonder why JG relied so much on playing solo, where he encounters his creative limits sometimes before he has come to a logic end. It leaves something to desire, even more he would never again be given the opportunity to record with musicians of that calibre (Swallow/Bley) for a major company.
But they were really "out on a limb" and one only needs to take a glimpse at the current improvised music landscape in Europe to discover that this group was a tough forerunner.
If you gush over Streisand and Diana Ross, this is not for u.......2001-08-07
Too bad Mickey Trotter's one-star review had to pull this down. Check out his More About Me page....stick with Motown and La Streisand, Mick. Also, I don't believe you really like Ornette's Shape of Jazz to Come...Free Fall is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention. Free jazz, as great as much of it was, would have benefited from a solid dose of Giuffre's influence.
twelve tonality meets jazz.......2000-06-26
mr. giuffre took a hard left turn as the 1960s opened making him almost unrecognizable to his original fans (he was part of woody herman's thundering herd and has a single enshrined in the grammy hall of fame), exploring european classical structures and sound in general, much like cecil taylor, ornette coleman, and, later, john coltrane. on this record, we hear the experiment in its fullest expression: tension building silences, two and three note conversations in the trio format, angular rhythms and spiky tonalities. each piece unfolds with each note played, drawing the listener in, but it requires attention. this is not background music, this must be LISTENED to for it make its impact. mr. bley continues to reval his avant-cool expression of the '50s and '60s and the real treasure here is steve swallow-- an early example of his bass meisterwork. this is an enjoyable free jazz work with highlights being the clarinet solo pieces (ornothoids, divided man, man alone) and the long piece 'five ways'which really lets us hear the trio at work. a fascinating gem from the early free jazz period.
Free Fall: An Appropriate Title.......2000-06-06
Only for those who like their Avante-Garde Jazz DULL, or who think that if something is BORING it must be high-brow. An hour of listening to your hair grow would be more entertaining! For an infinitely better representation of A-G Jazz, and a vastly more exciting listening experience, try Ornette Coleman's "The Shape of Jazz to Come."
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Liquid Dancers
The Jimmy Giuffre 4
Manufacturer: Soul Note
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000JPGOVU |
Product Description
TRACKLIST:
1. Liquid Dancers
2. Koko-Nut
3. Runnin' From The Rain
4. I Would
5. Move With The Times
6. Subway
7. Vision
8. Teacher, The
9. If I Was
Jimmy Giuffre (soprano & tenor saxophones, bass flute, clarinet); Pete Levin (keyboards); Bob Nieske (electric bass); Randy Kaye (drums).
Recorded at RBY Recording Studios, Southbury, Connecticut on April 24, 1989.
Giuffre's wide variety of reed instruments meets 80's synthesizers, very cool!
Jazz Music:
- The Misplaced Martini
- The Music Goes Round and Around
- The Turntable Sessions, Vol. 1 [Live]
- To Music
- Toward Love
- Vol. 2-All My Best [Import]
- Walk 'em: Decca Sessions
- What Is There to Say [Original recording remastered]
- When I Fall in Love
- You've Got to find Your own Groove
Jazz Music
Jazz Music