''Junction'' is a live album by drummer

Andrew Cyrille Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer ...

. It was recorded in May and June 1976 at two different venues in New York City, and was released later that year by the Institute of Percussive Studies. On the album, Cyrille is joined by members of the band Māōnō: saxophonist

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, trumpeter Ted Daniel, and bassist Lisle Atkinson. Liner notes were provided by

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. In 1977, the album was reissued by the Japanese label

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with different track names and sequence, and with the two shorter tracks replaced by different material from the same concerts.

Reception

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, writing for ''Bells'', suggested that, on ''Junction'', Cyrille paid tribute to fellow drummer

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. He commented: "You can hear it on the title track; also on 'Okurinomo,' a slow, high-pitched, ritual-like chanted tune, that evokes from Cyrille the subtly repetitive wave-like motions... that have come to mark the work of Murray. Interesting that this should happen as Cyrille's playing moves more in the direction of ritual... for in that type of structure, repetition is frequently used to great dramatic and evocative effect. I doubt that Cyrille's playing on these pieces is deliberately (ritually) derivative... but is likely more a felt improvisational response to the nature of his own compositions – the emotional demands of the moment. If ''Junction'' offers a bit less of Cyrille’s usual all-encompassing drum vision, it is a moving and, on its own terms, important musical statement."

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Cyrille. # "Junction" – 19:03 (in three movements: "Do You Know Where '1' Is?"; "Do You Know Where '2' Is?"; "Connaturally") # "Sidi Ahmed-Sidi" – 8:47 # "Ginakus 'M'" – 2:47 # "Okurimono (Gift From Japan)" – 21:14 * Tracks 2 and 4 recorded on May 23, 1976, at Studio Rivbea in New York City. Tracks 1 and 3 recorded on June 12, 1976, at Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University, in New York City.

Personnel

– drums, bells, gongs, kalimba, voice *

– tenor saxophone * Ted Daniel – trumpet, flugelhorn, effects * Lisle Atkinson – bass

References

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