Dark Day + Live in Verona 1979

Dark Day + Live in Verona 1979 Artist: Fred Anderson Quartet
Label: Atavistic Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 735286221824
EAN: 0735286221824
ASIN: B00005NNEQ


Release Date: 2001-09-18

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Listmania:

  1. the Unheard Music series, part I

Tracks:

  1. Dark Day
  2. Saxoon
  3. Three On Two
  4. The Prayer

Tracks:

  1. The Bull
  2. Three On Two
  3. Dark Day

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Early Fred, Early Hamid Drake.......2004-11-05

This cd is actually two concerts in one package. The first disc re-releases an old hard to find (make that impossible to find) LP recorded in Chicago. The second cd is a previously unreleased concert recorded just a few days later in Italy (and with much better sound, too.) Over the course of a few long renditions, Fred Anderson honks and blows in a very unique style that's nevertheless hard to instantly recognize. In length and structure, these performances resemble the avant-garde, but Fred stays away from extreme noise and screams. Just as fascinating is the drumming of the great Hamid Drake, here going by the name of Hank Drake. He's awfully young, but already putting together his signature sound of absolute precision, the funk, and African rhythms. The sound is a bit diffident, the arrangements are pretty sloppy (and pretty unmemorable thematically, too) and the bass player is either one of the worst in the world or just the victim of a really poor microphone set-up. But these are not disqualifiers. It's an intense, revealing set.

4 out of 5 stars Great introduction to Fred Anderson.......2001-11-18

This double CD set is a fine way to meet the smoothness and calm of Fred Anderson's evolved free jazz playing style. I don't know exactly what it is about Verona, Italy but it gestates great things. Enjoy.

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  1. The Pied Piper of Happiness ~ Ted Lewis
  2. Rhythmcolor Exotica ~ Glen Velez
  3. Call of the Gators ~ Willis %22Gator%22 Jackson
  4. Saxophone Improvisations, Series F ~ Anthony Braxton
  5. The Reunion ~ George Shearing with Stephane Grappelli
  6. Everybody Come on Out ~ Stanley Turrentine
  7. Blown Away ~ Elements
  8. This Is Oscar Peterson ~ Oscar Peterson
  9. Big Time ~ The Spitfire Band
  10. Temptation

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