''Zurich Concerts'' is a double live album by
Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra featuring recordings of two large-scale compositions, one by Guy, the other by guest artist
Anthony Braxton. The Guy work was recorded on November 11, 1987, at
Rote Fabrik in Zürich, while the Braxton work was recorded on March 27, 1988, at the same location. The album was initially released on LP in 1988 by
Intakt Records, and was reissued on CD in 1995.
Reception
In a review for
AllMusic
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, Thom Jurek wrote: "the attendees at these Zurich concerts were treated to the most intimate and prophetic of expressions in these two evenings. They were also given evidence of the very ground on which free improvisation and new composition stand linked to one another."
The authors of ''
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
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'' noted that "this is one of the few occasions when
raxton'scontact with British and European improvisors has seemed to yield a genuinely communicative music," and stated that "whereas Guy likes to work with existing sub-groups of the orchestra, Braxton layers compositions... in dense palimpsests."
CD track listing
;Disc 1
# "Polyhymnia " (Barry Guy) – 37:30
;Disc 2
# "Composition 135 (+41, 63, 96), 136 (+96), 108B (+86, 96), 134 (+96)" (Anthony Braxton) – 56:47
Personnel
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Barry Guy – bass (disc 2), conductor (disc 1)
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Anthony Braxton – conductor (disc 2)
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Evan Parker – reeds
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Paul Dunmall – reeds
* Peter McPhail – reeds
* Simon Picard – reeds
*
Trevor Watts – reeds
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Henry Lowther – trumpet
* Jon Corbett – trumpet
*
Marc Charig
Mark Charig (born 22 February 1944 in London) is a British trumpeter and cornetist.
He was particularly active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he played in settings as diverse as Long John Baldry's group, Bluesology, Soft Machine, a ...
– cornet
* Alan Tomlinson – trombone
*
Paul Rutherford – trombone
*
Radu Malfatti – trombone
* Steve Wick – tuba
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Philipp Wachsmann – violin
*
Howard Riley – piano
*
Barre Phillips – bass (disc 1)
*
Dave Holland – bass (disc 2)
*
Paul Lytton – drums
*
Tony Oxley
Tony Oxley (15 June 1938 – 26 December 2023) was an English free improvisation, free improvising drummer and electronic musician.
Born in Sheffield, Oxley moved to London in 1966 and became house drummer at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club where he ...
– drums (disc 2)
References
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1988 live albums
Barry Guy live albums
Anthony Braxton live albums
Intakt Records live albums