Released 2000 Genre Jazz Label Eremite | Recorded April 1 & 2, 1999 Length 100:14 | |
Venue Day 1: Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass, Amherst
Day 2: Killian Hall, MIT, Cambridge | ||
2 Days in April is a double album by a free jazz quartet consisting of saxophonists Fred Anderson and Kidd Jordan, bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, documenting two 1999 concerts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge. It was released on Eremite, a label founded by producer Michael Ehlers. Anderson and Jordan first meeting was at a mid-80s AACM concert in Chicago, but this is their first recording together.
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Reception
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "There isn't anything remotely 'inside' about the playing on these two CDs. They are documents of concerts in which two brilliant veteran saxophonists engaged each other, stretched each other's musical vocabularies to the breaking point and pushed their rhythm section into places they hadn't dreamed of going before."
Track listing
All compositions by Anderson / Drake / Jordan / ParkerDisc One: 1st Day
- – 17:26
- – 11:55
- – 15:44
- – 10:01
Disc Two: 2nd Day
- – 10:00
- – 17:17
- – 17:51