IAI Festival

IAI Festival
Live album by Jimmy Giuffre/Lee Konitz/Bill Connors/Paul Bley
Released	1978
Recorded	May 19, 1978 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:03
Label	Improvising Artists IAI 37.38.59
Producer	Paul Bley
Jimmy Giuffre chronology
River Chant (1975) IAI Festival (1978) Dragonfly (1983)

IAI Festival (full title IAI Festival/Great American Music Hall/San Francisco) is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Giuffre, saxophonist Lee Konitz, guitarist Bill Connors and pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1978 which was the final release on Bley's own Improvising Artists label. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars noting it is "just 37 minutes of music, but it is definitely worth hearing". ^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Blues in the Closet" (Oscar Pettiford)	5:12
2.	"The Sad Time" (Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz)	2:34
3.	"Spanish Flames" (Giuffre, Bill Connors)	11:26
4.	"Enter, Ivory" (Giuffre, Paul Bley)	11:07
5.	"From Then to Then" (Giuffre, Konitz)	5:44

Personnel

• Jimmy Giuffre – tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 5), bass flute (track 2), clarinet (track 3), soprano saxophone (track 4), flute (track 4)
• Lee Konitz – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 5)
• Bill Connors – guitar (track 3)
• Paul Bley – piano (track 4)

References

1. Fitzgerald, M., Jimmy Guiffre Leader Entry accessed July 8, 2015
2. Jimmy Giuffre Catalog accessed July 8, 2015
3. Yanow, Scott. IAI Festival – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved July 8, 2015.