Racket Club (album)

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Racket Club
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Studio album by Joe Morris
Released 1998
Recorded June 26, 1993
Studio The Outpost, Stoughton, MA
Genre Jazz
Length64:14
Label About Time
Producer Joe Morris
Joe Morris chronology
Antennae
(1997)
Racket Club
(1998)
Like Rays
(1998)

Racket Club is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris, which was recorded in 1993 and released on the About Time label. It was the second part of what Morris calls "Big Loud Electric Guitar" experiments, that started with Sweatshop. [1]

Joseph Francis Michael Morris is an American jazz guitarist, bassist, composer, and educator.

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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek notes that "this is an inverse portrait of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time band, a group that, at least here, deeply influenced Morris, not only in terms of composition and improvisation, but his tonal technical approach to the guitar." [2]

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Ornette Coleman American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of free jazz, a term he invented for his album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His "Broadway Blues" and "Lonely Woman" have become standards and are cited as important early works in free jazz. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.

In a review for JazzTimes Larry Appelbaum states "It's a white-knuckle, noisy, wild trip of a CD, great for head banging." [3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Joe Morris
  1. "Rumble Strip" – 8:28
  2. "Revolve" – 9:45
  3. "Wedge" – 6:40
  4. "Cellular" – 6:22
  5. "Vapor" – 11:28
  6. "Pointyhead (Parts 1 & 2)" – 4:49
  7. "Instinct" – 8:00
  8. "Slipshod" – 8:42

Personnel

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