World Saxophone Quartet - Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music (1986)

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Title: Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Black Saint [120096-2]
Genre: Jazz, Avantgarde Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 47:00
Total Size: 274 MB(+3%) | 111 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. One/Waltz/Time (Hemphill) - 3:51
02. Great Peace (Murray) - 14:48
03. Kind'a Up (Lake) - 4:00
04. Paper Works (Bluiett) - 7:53
05. Open Air (for Tommy) (Hemphill) - 10:06
06. Georgia Blue (Hemphill) - 6:22

personnel :

Hamiet Bluiett - baritone saxophone, alto clarinet
Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
David Murray - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet

The World Saxophone Quartet's first recording in four years found the group's power and adventurous nature unchanged. In existence on a part-time basis for eight years at this point, the band still sounded quite unique, making avant-garde explorations almost seem accessible at times and playing quite rhythmically in places even without the presence of a rhythm section. Altoists Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake, tenor saxophonist David Murray and baritonist Hamiet Bluiett (all of whom double on other reeds) were individually quite innovative, but they were also able to blend together to form an unusual group sound. Of their six originals, it is as usual the three Hemphill contributions that are most memorable.~Scott Yanow