''Creative Construction Company Vol. II'' (also referred to as ''CCC Vol. II'') is a 1976 album by the jazz collective Creative Construction Company, originally released on the

Muse In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, the Muses (, ) were the Artistic inspiration, inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric p ...

label.Muhal Richard Abrams discography
accessed March 25, 2015

Reception

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...

awarded the album 2 stars with its review by Eugene Chadbourne stating, "Braxton and company were going somewhere else of great interest by not relying constantly on jazz chops or a standard rhythm section sound, and the guests on this date seem to be blocking the road".

Track listing

''All compositions by Leroy Jenkins'' # "No More White Gloves – Part I (With Sand Under Your Shoes Doing a Dance)" - 17:30 # "No More White Gloves – Part II (With Sand Under Your Shoes Doing a Dance)" - 16:58

Personnel

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Chi ...

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly small ...

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

contrabass clarinet The contrabass clarinet (also pedal clarinet, after the pedals of pipe organs) and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage. Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instruments pitche ...

chimes Chimes are a percussion instrument, sets of bells in varying pitches. These include: * Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard * Cymbalum or cymbala, word from which chimes derives, ...

* Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician), Leroy Jenkins - violin, viola, Recorder (musical instrument), recorder, Xylophone, toy xylophone, harmonica, Vehicle horn#Bicycle, bicycle horn * Wadada Leo Smith, Leo Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn, seal horn, percussion * Muhal Richard Abrams - piano, cello, clarinet * Richard Davis (bassist), Richard Davis - double bass, bass * Steve McCall (drummer), Steve McCall - drum kit, drums, percussion

References

{{Richard Davis Creative Construction Company albums Muse Records live albums 1976 live albums