Flight, Bremen 1961

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Flight, Bremen 1961
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Live album by Jimmy Giuffre
Released 1993
Recorded

November 23, 1961,

at Sendesaal Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Genre Jazz, cool jazz, third stream
Length62:37
Label Hat Hut
Producer Radio Bremen,
Werner X. Uehlinger
Jimmy Giuffre chronology
Emphasis, Stuttgart 1961
(1961)
Flight, Bremen 1961
(1993)
Free Fall
(1961)
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Flight, Bremen 1961 is an album by the Jimmy Giuffre 3 recorded live at Sendesaal of regional public broadcaster Radio Bremen, Germany, on November 23, 1961. It was first released in 1993 by hatArt, and re-released by HatOLOGY (another imprint of Hathut Records) in combination with a previous recording from the same concert tour called Emphasis & Flight 1961 (2003). [2]

Jimmy Giuffre American clarinet and saxophone player

James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is notable for his development of forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.

Radio Bremen

Radio Bremen (RB), Germany's smallest public radio and television broadcaster, is the legally mandated broadcaster for the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. With its headquarters sited in Bremen, Radio Bremen is a member of the consortium of German public broadcasting organizations, ARD.

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Huthut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Jimmy Giuffre unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Call of the Centaur" - 3:59
  2. "Postures" (Paul Bley) - 6:56
  3. "Sonic" - 5:21
  4. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 5:56
  5. "Stretching Out (Suite for Germany)" - 11:12
  6. "Cry, Want" - 7:34
  7. "Flight" - 5:39
  8. "That's True, That's True" - 8:39
  9. "Trance" - 5:51
  10. "Whirrrr" - 2:31

Personnel

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