Morning Prayer (album)

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Morning Prayer is a 1976 album by Chico Freeman, released on India Navigation and the Japanese Whynot Records. [1]

1976 in jazz Overview of the events of 1976 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1976.

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

Track listing

All selections composed and arranged by Chico Freeman
  1. "Like the Kind of Peace It is"
  2. "The In Between"
  3. "Conversations"
  4. "Morning Prayer"
  5. "Pepe's Samba"
  6. "Pepe's Samba" (long version) [2]

Personnel

Henry Threadgill American jazz musician

Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid.

Muhal Richard Abrams American musician

Muhal Richard Abrams was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium. He recorded and toured the United States, Canada and Europe with his orchestra, sextet, quartet, duo and as a solo pianist. His musical affiliations constitute a "who's who" of the jazz world, including Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Art Farmer, Sonny Stitt, Anthony Braxton, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Cecil McBee American bassist

Cecil McBee is an American jazz bassist, one of the most influential in the history of jazz. McBee has recorded as a leader only a handful of times since the 1970s, but has contributed as a sideman to a number of jazz albums.

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References

  1. ↑ "Chico Freeman – Morning Prayer". RateYourMusic.com. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  2. ↑ Yanow, Scott. "Chico Freeman – Morning Prayer". AllMusic . Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  3. ↑ "Chico Freeman – Morning Prayer". Discogs.com . Retrieved 2017-11-02.
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