Real Deal (album)

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Real Deal
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Studio album by David Murray & Milford Graves
Released 1994
Recorded November 3, 1991
Genre Jazz
Length63:49
Label DIW
Producer Kazunori Sugiyama
David Murray chronology
Fast Life
(1993)
Real Deal
(1994)
A Sanctuary Within
(1994)

Real Deal is an album by David Murray and Milford Graves released on the Japanese DIW label in 1994. It features eight duo performances by Murray and Graves.

David Murray (saxophonist) American jazz musician (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet)

David Murray is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.

Milford Graves American drummer

Milford Graves is an American jazz drummer and percussionist, most noteworthy for his early avant-garde contributions in the early 1960s with Paul Bley and the New York Art Quartet alongside John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, and Reggie Workman. He is considered to be a free jazz pioneer, liberating the percussion from its timekeeping role. In fact, many of his music contemporaries, musician inspirees, and fans worldwide would argue that Graves is perhaps the most influential known musician in the development and continuing evolution of free-jazz/avant-garde music, to date. Milford Graves taught at Bennington College, in Bennington, Vermont, as a full-time professor from 1973 until 2011, when he was awarded Emeritus status.

DIW Records is a Japanese record label specializing in avant-garde jazz. It is a subsidiary of Disk Union. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars. [1]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

  1. "Stated With Peace" (Murray) - 7:50
  2. "The Third Day" (Murray) - 8:50
  3. "Luxor" (Murray) - 8:30
  4. "Under & Over" (Graves) - 6:04
  5. "Moving About" (Graves) - 11:09
  6. "Ultimate High Priest" (Graves) - 6:27
  7. "Essential Soul" (Graves) - 10:49
  8. "Continuity" (Murray) - 4:10

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed July 11, 2011