Jam for Your Life!

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Jam for Your Life!
Don Moye Jam for Your Life 1991.jpg
Studio album by
Released1985
Recorded1983–1991
StudioSparrow Sound Design and North Shore Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Jazz
Length56:51
Label AECO Records
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1985 cassette cover
Don Moye Jam for Your Life 1985.jpg

Jam for Your Life! is an album by percussionist Famoudou Don Moye. It was recorded at Sparrow Sound Design and North Shore Studios in Chicago, Illinois. An initial version, with material recorded in September 1985, was released on cassette later that year by AECO Records, a label founded by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In 1991, AECO reissued the album, with material recorded during 1983–1991, on CD with a different track order and an additional track. On the album, Moye is joined by multi-instrumentalist Ari Brown, vocalist Luba Raashiek, and nearly a dozen additional musicians. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

In a review for JazzTimes, Willard Jenkins described the album as "an Afro-centric outing laden with percussion and the AACM sense of music with a theatrical bent that serves the dual purpose of exploration and entertainment," and wrote: "At the helm Moye's percussive colors, from djembe to traps, are lush and penetrating and the cast is a well-integrated bunch." [6]

Jeff Potter of Modern Drummer stated: "From ancient to future, primal to complex, Moye's music retains a positive, on-the-spot urgency with all the right roots grit intact." [7]

CD Track listing

  1. "Two City Suite: Sidi Ifni / Rokupuhr"" (Don Moye) – 8:17 (bonus track on CD)
  2. "Solomon / Jam for Your Life" (Luba Raashiek) – 10:08
  3. "One for Skip" (Ari Brown) – 6:03
  4. "Black Nile" (Wayne Shorter) – 4:17
  5. "Kamsar" (Don Moye) – 4:14
  6. "Richard's Tune" (Ari Brown) – 10:05
  7. "My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 9:14
  8. "Miles Mode" (John Coltrane) – 4:13

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 "Famoudou Don Moye: Jam for Your Life!". AllMusic. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  2. "Famoudou Don Moye - Jam for Your Life". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  3. "Famoudou Don Moye - Jam for Your Life". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  4. "AECO Records discography". JazzLists.com. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1050.
  6. Jenkins, Willard (June 1, 1998). "Famaudou Don Moye: Jam For Your Life". Jazz Times. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  7. Potter, Jeff (January 1992). "Recordings" (PDF). Modern Drummer. pp. 60–61.