Fly Away Little Bird (1992)

Product Summary Label: Ryko Distribution UPC: 00016728350426 Release Date: 7/29/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60607838 Item#: M2QWWV Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Fly Away Little Bird ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 2. Fits ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 3. I Can't Get Started ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 4. Qualude ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 5. Possibilities ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 6. Tumbleweed ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 7. All the Things You Are ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 8. Starts ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 9. Goodbye ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 10. Just Dropped By ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 11. Lover Man ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 12. Positude ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 13. Sweet and Lovely ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow 14. Bats in the Belfry ~ Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info /Paul Bley/Steve Swallow. Personnel: Jimmy Giuffre (vocals, soprano saxophone, clarinet); Paul Bley (piano); Steve Swallow (electric bass). Producers: Jean-Jacques Pussiau, Francois Lemaire. Recorded at Sound On Sound Studios, New York, New York on April 25, 1992. Personnel: Jimmy Giuffre (vocals, clarinet, soprano saxophone); Paul Bley (piano, boesendorfer piano); Steve Swallow (electric bass). Audio Mixer: David Baker . Liner Note Author: Philippe Carles. Recording information: Sound on Sound Studio, NY (04/25/1992). Why aren't there more recordings like Fly Away Little Bird? Perhaps it's because there aren't more musicians of this stature. The studio reunion of the legendarily experimental Jimmy Giuffre 3 in 1992 was reissued in 2003 on the French Sunnyside label and is a radical departure from anything the trio had done in the past. These studio apparitions of the band are their most seamlessly accessible while being wildly exploratory. In addition to the consummate improvisations and compositions by Giuffre (title track, a redone "Tumbleweed"), the tender meditations by Steve Swallow ("Fits" and "Starts"), and the bottom-register contrapuntal improves by Paul Bley ("Qualude"), this is a trio recording that uses standards such as "Lover Man," a radically and gorgeously reworked "I Can't Get Started," "Sweet and Lovely," and "All the Things You Are" to state hidden textural possibilities inside chromatic harmony. There is never the notion of restraint in the slow, easy, and proactive way these compositions are approached. Rather, they are traced along spectral melodic frameworks and opened up from the space provided by not having a drummer, allowing for tonal exploration and group interaction to meet in the center of a composition and grow it out to all three sides of a triangle. The moving emotions that swirl around inside these (mostly) light melodies are the most captivating and aesthetically beautiful this group has ever committed to tape. Here is a stellar display of the intricacies of musical communication as it happens and how achingly beautiful a record can be when three men listen carefully to one another's secret hearts. ~ Thom Jurek Engineer: David Baker; Jean-Marie Guerin   Compilation Appearances Fly Away Little Bird Harold Arlen Songbook:over The Rainbo   Associated Artists and Works Bley, Paul Bley, Paul The Life Of A Trio: Saturday [Remaster] ~ Bley, Paul The Life Of A Trio: Sunday [Remaster] ~ Bley, Paul Brookmeyer, Bob Charles, Teddy Charles, Teddy Clarke-Boland Big Band/Western Suite ~ Clarke, Kenny Handle With Care/Western Suite ~ Clarke-Boland Big Band Ellis, Herb Hall, Jim Jaume, Andre Konitz, Lee Manne, Shelly Modern Jazz Quartet Three Windows   Technical Info Release Date : 07/29/2003 Original Release Date : 1992 Catalog ID : 3504 Label : Sunnyside Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00016728350426    Related Videos Randy Jackson: Randy Jack...