''More'' is the second album by American jazz saxophonist

Giuseppi Logan Giuseppi Logan (May 22, 1935 – April 17, 2020) was a jazz musician, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to Reed (instrument), reeds at the age of 12. At the age of 15 he began p ...

, recorded in May 1965 and released in 1966 by the

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label. The album features Logan on alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, and piano along with pianist

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, bassists

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and Reggie Johnson, and drummer Milford Graves. Two of the tracks were recorded live on May 1, 1965 at the same

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concert that yielded the

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album '' Bells'', and that also featured saxophonist Byron Allen as well as the last public performance of

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. The remaining two tracks were recorded at

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in New York City later that month. In 2013, ESP issued a 50th Anniversary Remaster which included previously unissued music from Logan's set.

Reception

In a review for

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, Scott Yanow wrote: "This set matches his reeds with the young pianist Don Pullen, either Reggie Johnson or Eddie Gomez on bass and drummer Milford Graves. Despite his best efforts on the four blowouts (playing piano on 'Curve Eleven'), Logan is largely overshadowed by his sidemen on this CD reissue and his energetic and colorful solos are somewhat erratic." Writing for ''Point of Departure'', Stuart Broomer commented: "There's nothing to suggest premeditation: Logan's introductory yawps and sputters and sudden bursts of notes on bass clarinet, or his later flute interludes, don't suggest composition, and his rhythms seem provisional – both radical steps in 1965. Logan had succeeded in assembling the most innovative rhythm section of the day, with liberated polyrhythms and a crazy-quilt of splattered clusters generated by drummer Milford Graves and pianist Don Pullen, the group's outstanding soloist. The bassist on the May Day material is Reggie Johnson, an adept if relatively conventional musician... Logan is most potent on the studio piece 'Wretched Saturday:' he's playing alto saxophone with that trademark acidic lyricism and the bassist is Eddie Gomez, the quartet's original bassist and as significant a contributor to the band's special quality as Logan, Graves or Pullen. Gomez contributes rapid-fire bursts of notes that seem to bounce off Graves' slack-skin drum sound and intermingle with Pullen's percussive flights and Logan's vocalic utterance. On the unaccompanied piano solo 'Curve Eleven,' Logan’s stream of consciousness conception is presented in keyboard form, runs up and down the keyboard that dance percussively or float on a sea of sustain pedal, sudden bluesy interludes, dissonant chordings, and passages that momentarily resemble the modality of Ravel."

Track listing

All compositions by Giuseppi Logan. # "Mantu" - 5:06 # "Shebar" - 13:16 # "Curve Eleven" - 8:39 # "Wretched Sunday" - 11:05 Tracks 1-2 recorded at Town Hall, New York City, on May 1, 1965. Tracks 3-4 recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City in May 1965.

Personnel

– alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, piano on track 3 *

– piano *

– bass (track 4) * Reggie Johnson – bass (tracks 1 and 2) * Milford Graves – drums

References

{{Reflist Giuseppi Logan albums ESP-Disk albums 1966 albums