The Open Air Meeting

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The Open Air Meeting
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Live album by Muhal Richard Abrams
Released 1997
Recorded August 11, 1996
Genre Jazz
Length57:53
Label New World
Producer Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams chronology
One Line, Two Views
(1995)
The Open Air Meeting
(1997)
The Visibility of Thought
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Open Air Meeting is a live album by Muhal Richard Abrams and Marty Ehrlich which was released on the New World label in 1997 and features duet performances by Abrams and Erlich recorded in August 1996 at the Brooklyn Museum.

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.

Marty Ehrlich American musician

Marty Ehrlich is a multi-instrumentalist and is considered one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz.

New World Records is a record label that was established in 1975 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant to celebrate America's bicentennial (1976) by producing a 100-LP anthology, with American music from many genres.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The two musicians listen closely to each other and react quickly to any ideas that the other might have. Abrams' strong technique and knowledge of other styles and Ehrlich's versatile playing prove to be a stimulating match". [2]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Track listing

  1. "Marching With Honor" (Muhal Richard Abrams) - 10:55
  2. "Dark Sestina" (Marty Ehrlich) - 8:31
  3. "Crossbeams" (Abrams) - 7:34
  4. "The Price of the Ticket" (Ehrlich) - 13:54
  5. "Bright Canto" (Ehrlich) - 12:04
  6. "Blues to You" (Abrams, Ehrlich) - 4:55

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Clarinet type of woodwind instrument

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist.

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References

  1. Allmusic Review
  2. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 31, 2009