Audio-Visualscapes
| Audio-Visualscapes | ||||
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| Released | 1988 | |||
| Recorded | February 1–3, 1988 | |||
| Studios | Grog Kill, Woodstock, NY | |||
| Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 74:05 | |||
| Label | MCA/Impulse! | |||
| Producer | Jack DeJohnette | |||
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Audio-Visualscapes is an album by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, featuring Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Mick Goodrick, and Lonnie Plaxico, recorded in 1988 and released on the MCA/Impulse! label.[1][2]
Critical reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
The New York Times called the album "raw and tumultuous, hardly the work of someone settling into an easy middle age of refinement."[4] The Boston Globe and The San Diego Union-Tribune considered it one of the best jazz albums of 1988.[5][6]
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "This single-CD (formerly a double-LP) from Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition contains music that mixes together advanced hard bop, fusion, M-Base funk and avant-garde jazz... The results are sometimes unsettling but rarely dull, well worth several listens."[3]
Track listing
[edit]All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated
Side one
- "PM's AM" - 5:50
- "Donjo" (Greg Osby) - 6:20
- "Master Mind" (Osby) - 8:07
Side two
- "Slam Tango" - 6:06
- "The Sphinx" (Ornette Coleman) - 15:22
Side three
- "One for Eric" - 12:10
- "Brown, Warm & Wintery" - 5:45
Side four
- "Audio-Visualscapes" (DeJohnette, Lonnie Plaxico, Osby, Mick Goodrick, Gary Thomas) - 14:25
Personnel
[edit]- Jack DeJohnette – drums, synthesizer (sampled grand piano, expander, drum machine)
- Gary Thomas – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet (through voice processor and Vocoder)
- Greg Osby – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone (through Pitch Rider)
- Lonnie Plaxico – electric bass, upright bass
- Mick Goodrick – electric guitar
References
[edit]- ↑ Jack DeJohnette discography accessed 11 September 2009
- ↑ Snider, Eric (October 16, 1988). "Barriers ... and how to break them". St. Petersburg Times. p. 2F.
- 1 2 AllMusic Review
- ↑ Watrous, Peter (September 11, 1988). "Two Jazz Veterans Work with New Recruits". The New York Times. p. A32.
- ↑ "1988 Records". Calendar. The Boston Globe. December 22, 1988. p. 10.
- ↑ Varga, George (January 1, 1989). "Best Jazz Albums of 1988". The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. E3.
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