Song For is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman, recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label.
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Studio album by Joseph Jarman | ||||
Released | 1967 | |||
Recorded | December 16, 1966 October 20, 1966 (tracks 2,5) | |||
Studio | Sound Studios, Chicago | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 40:47 (LP) 51:37 (CD) | |||
Label | Delmark | |||
Producer | Robert G. Koester | |||
Joseph Jarman chronology | ||||
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Jarman's regular quintet with saxophonist Fred Anderson, trumpeter Billy Brimfield, bassist Charles Clark and drummer Thurman Barker was augmented for the record by another drummer, Steve McCall, and a new figure, pianist Christopher Gaddy, who had just returned from army service. Gaddy died on March 12, 1968, less than a month before his twenty-fifth birthday. Song For was his only recorded performance.[1] Before joining Jarman, Anderson and Brimfield co-led a quartet which was one of the seminal AACM group.[2]
"Adam's Rib" is a Brimfield tune, while "Little Fox Run"" is an Anderson composition (the CD edition adds an unissued take of this piece). “Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City” is a work combining music with an extended poem by Jarman himself.[1]
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Scott Yanow, in his review for AllMusic claims "this music was the next step in jazz after the high-energy passions of the earlier wave of the avant-garde started to run out of fresh ideas".[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz states about the album "Of great documentary and historical significance, though unlikely to effect any dramatic conversions."[5]
Bonus track on CD
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