Life Of A Trio:sunday (1989)

Product Summary Label: Sunnyside Records UPC: 00016728351522 Release Date: 3/13/2007 Buy.com Sku: 204108226 Item#: M3GLLT Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Sensing ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 2. Monique ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 3. Giant Guitar And The Black Stick, The ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 4. Industrial Suite ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 5. Sanctuary Much ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 6. Tango Del Mar ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 7. Hidden Voice, The ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 8. Mephisto ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 9. Where Were We? ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 10. Sweet Song ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 11. Scrambled Legs ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 12. Play Ball ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 13. Fallen Statue ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 14. Things ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 15. Two Singers ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow 16. Life Of A Trio, The ~ Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Jimmy Giuffre (tenor saxophone); Paul Bley (piano); Jimmy Giuffre (clarinet, soprano saxophone); Steve Swallow (electric bass). Audio Mixer: David Baker . Audio Remasterer: Jean Marie Gu?rin. Liner Note Author: Philippe Carles. Recording information: Sound & Sound Studio, NY (12/17/1989). Unknown Contributor Role: Francois LeMaire. The second night of the 1989 reunion in New York of the 1961-1962 Jimmy Giuffre 3 with pianist Paul Bley and (now electric) bassist Steve Swallow in some ways eclipses the first. The fact that there is more integration between the trio members as a whole than on the first evening is certainly one place to start. At the very beginning, "Sensing" -- with Giuffre on soprano and Bley playing bass notes in the lowest register as Swallow enters and takes over the role and Bley moves to the middle -- is a stunner, though it is only four minutes and 13 seconds long. The breadth of the players seems to have come back to them as a unit with these live, as-they-happened, no-second-take performances. There are six full performances here -- and oddly enough the most satisfying of them is a composed piece by Carla Bley entitled "Where Were We?" -- instead of three from the previous evening. Giuffre is more comfortable on the soprano here, and the duos are quite literally amazing. Bley has a pair of piano solos, Giuffre has one clarinet solo, and the rest are duos made up of either bass and piano, clarinet and bass, soprano and piano, soprano and bass, etc. The joy of music-making and the inherent lyricism in these pieces reflect not only a sense of familiarity with the dialogue and improvisational feel of each player, but the true desire to communicate from inside the sound being explored to the listener as well. There may have been a few more viscerally exciting performances by vanguard jazz trios during 1989, but few of them that revealed -- via the strength of restraint -- what tonality, dissonance, and harmony can achieve when what is explored is music for its own sake. Highly recommended. ~ Thom Jurek Producer: Jean-Jacques Pussiau; Francois Lemaire Engineer: David Baker; David Baker; Bryce Goggin   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 : 03/13/2007 Original Release Date : 1989 Catalog ID : 283515 Label : Sunnyside Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Live Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00016728351522    Product Image