''Inside Job'' is a live album by trombonist

Roswell Rudd Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. (November 17, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist and composer. Although skilled in a variety of genres of jazz (including Dixieland, which he performed while in college), and other genres of musi ...

. It was recorded on May 21, 1976, at Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea in New York City, and was released later that year by

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. On the album, Rudd is joined by trumpeter

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, pianist

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, bassist

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, and drummer Harold White. ''Inside Job'' was recorded during the

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festival documented on '' Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions''.

Reception

In a review for

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, Ron Wynn described the album as a "solid quintet date." Jacob Garchik, writing for

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's web site, noted that, in comparison with Rudd's previous releases, "Mysterioso" finds him "really playing quite inside, with a more grounded vocabulary, but still with his characteristic bravado and inventiveness." Author Todd S. Jenkins stated that the album has an "aura of relaxed inventiveness."

Track listings

# "Sacred Song" (Roswell Rudd) – 8:01 # " Mysterioso" (

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) – 7:42 # "Inside Job" (Roswell Rudd) – 16:26

Personnel

– trombone *

– trumpet *

– piano *

– acoustic bass * Harold White – drums

References

{{authority control 1976 live albums Roswell Rudd live albums Freedom Records live albums