IAI Festival

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IAI Festival
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Live album by
Released1978
RecordedMay 19, 1978
Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
Genre Jazz
Length36:03
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]

Contents

Reception

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

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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

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References

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