All Night Wrong

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All Night Wrong
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Live album by
Allan Holdsworth
Released4 September 2002 (2002-09-04) [1]
Recorded5 May 2002
VenueRoppongi Pit Inn, Tokyo
Genre Jazz fusion
Length55:53
Label Sony
Producer Akira Yoda, Hiroya Tsubaki, Yasohachi Itoh
Allan Holdsworth chronology
Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie
(2001)		All Night Wrong
(2002)		 Then!
(2003)

All Night Wrong is the first official live album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released in 2002 through Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) and in 2003 through Steve Vai's Favored Nations Entertainment (United States). [2] [3] The album was recorded on 5 May 2002 at the Roppongi Pit Inn in Tokyo, Japan.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

In a review for AllMusic, Glenn Astarita wrote: "Holdsworth's climactically driven legato-based riffs are intact, as he also implements jazzy chord voicings and delicately stated fabrics of sound. But the trio raises the ante throughout many of these pieces, awash with moments of nuance and controlled firepower." [4]

The Guardian's John Fordham stated that Holdsworth's "atmospheric ambient-chord sounds over cymbal washes are very dramatic... and the range of his melodic imagination backed by storming technique is always breathtaking." However, he noted: "there's just too much unbroken heavy-metalwork and wall-to-wall drums." [5]

Writing for JazzTimes , Stuart Nicholson remarked: "Virtually cliché-free, Holdswoth isn't someone you can categorize... His uncompromising music doesn't come to you; you have to go to it." [7]

Matt Fripp of Jazzfuel called the album "electrifying," serving as "a great introduction to Allan Holdsworth's musical style." He commented: "Virtuosic legato single line passages weave in and out of complex time signatures, the rhythm section of Wackerman and Johnson interacting throughout with Holdsworth." [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Allan Holdsworth, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Lanyard Loop"5:46
2."The Things You See"6:53
3."Alphrazallan"7:04
4."Funnels"5:01
5."Zone" (Holdsworth, Steve Hunt, Gary Husband, Jimmy Johnson)9:19
6."Water on the Brain Pt.II"5:30
7."Above & Below"8:21
8."Gas Lamp Blues"7:59
Total length:55:53

Personnel

Technical

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References

  1. ↑ "ALL NIGHT WRONG - Allan Holdsworth". Sony Music.
  2. ↑ "Allan Holdsworth - All Night Wrong". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  3. ↑ "Allan Holdsworth Catalog". JazzDisco. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  4. 1 2 Astarita, Glenn. "All Night Wrong - Allan Holdsworth". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  5. 1 2 Fordham, John. "Allan Holdsworth: All Night Wrong". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 416.
  7. ↑ Nicholson, Stuart (March 2004). "Reviews: Fusion". JazzTimes. p. 87 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Fripp, Matt (11 March 2023). "Allan Holdsworth: 10 of The Guitarist's Iconic Jazz Fusion Albums". Jazzfuel. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
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