Chico (album)

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Chico (album)
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Live album by Chico Freeman
Released 1977
Recorded 1977
Genre Jazz
Length41:41
Label India Navigation
Producer India Navigation
Chico Freeman chronology
Morning Prayer
(1976)		Chico (album)
(1977)		 Beyond the Rain
(1977)
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Chico is a post-bop jazz lp by Chico Freeman on India Navigation Records IN 1031 -on which Chico switches between tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and flute during long, explorative tracks. [3]

Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid-1960s.

Chico Freeman American saxophonist

Chico Freeman is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman. He began recording as lead musician in 1976 with Morning Prayer, won the New York Jazz Award in 1979 and earned the Stereo Review Record of the Year in 1981 for his album The Outside Within.

India Navigation was an American record company and independent record label that specialized in avant-garde jazz in the 1970s and 1980s. It was founded by Bob Cummins, a corporate lawyer who helped jazz musicians with legal matters. Its catalogue included Arthur Blythe, Hamiet Bluiett, Chico Freeman, Cecil McBee, and the Revolutionary Ensemble. In addition to this, some recordings of minimal music, such as Arnold Dreyblatt, Phill Niblock and Joseph Celli, or Tom Johnson, also appeared.

Contents

The LP consists of compositions by Mr. Freeman and his frequent bassist, Cecil McBee. All of side 2 was recorded in concert in New York City.

Criticism

Jazz critic Scott Yanow wrote: “Freeman shows why he was rated so high during this early productive period.” [4]

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Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Background

The album is part of the AACM American experimental music group movement, whose motto is "Great Black Music, Ancient to the Future." [5]

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1965 in Chicago by pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist Jodie Christian, drummer Steve McCall, and composer Phil Cohran. The AACM is devoted "to nurturing, performing, and recording serious, original music," according to its charter. It supports and encourages jazz performers, composers and educators. Although founded in the jazz tradition, the group's outreach and influence has, according to Larry Blumenfeld, "touched nearly all corners of modern music."

Track listing

  1. "Moments" (Freeman, McBee) – 16:31
    • a) Generation
    • b) Regeneration
  2. "And All The World Moved…" (Freeman, McBee) – 9:05
  3. "Merger" (Freeman)– 16:05

Reissues

An audio cd of this record was released in 1992 and again in 2000 by India Navigation, with the 24-minute, three-part "Moments" expanded by 7:23 for the reissue. [6]

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Flute musical instrument of the woodwind family

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist.

Bass clarinet musical instrument

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B♭ clarinet, it is usually pitched in B♭, but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B♭ clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare. Bass clarinets regularly perform in orchestras, wind ensembles/concert bands, occasionally in marching bands, and play an occasional solo role in contemporary music and jazz in particular.

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Scott Yanow. "Chico - Chico Freeman | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 79. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ India Navigation LP IN-1035
  4. ↑ All Music Guide to Jazz –ISBN   0-87930-530-4
  5. ↑ A power stronger than itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, by George Lewis, University of Chicago Press, 2008, ISBN   0-226-47695-2, ISBN   978-0-226-47695-7
  6. ↑ "Record Reviews, Streaming Songs, Genres & Bands". AllMusic . Retrieved 2016-02-09.
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