Released 1968 Release date 1968 | Length 44:45 Producer Bob Koester | |
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Recorded July 17, 1968 (track 1)June 19, 1968 (track 2) Studio Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago Similar Joseph Jarman albums, Jazz albums | ||
As If It Were the Seasons is the second album by American jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman, recorded in 1968 and released on the Delmark label.
Contents
Background
After the death of Christopher Gaddy, who played piano on his debut album, Song For, Jarman played with the rhythm section of bassist Charles Clark and drummer Thurman Barker. For concerts he invited guests as Sherri Scott, who adds his voice to the trio for the first pieces in this record. Jarman composed “Song for Christopher”, based on incomplete notations by the pianist, as a memorial to Gaddy. The piece was recorded by the group augmented by six musicians. Clark died on April 15, 1969 at twenty- four, he had taken part only in three recordings, Muhal Richard Abrams’s Levels and Degrees of Light, Jarman’s Song For and this album.
Reception
Scott Yanow, in his review for AllMusic claims about the album "Certainly not for everyone's taste, the truly open-eared will find the innovative results quite intriguing." The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "the title-piece exemplifies Jarman's particular blending of lyricism, free space, drifting time and occasional bursts of intensity."
Track listing
All compositions by Joseph Jarman- "As If It Were the Seasons / Song to Make the Sun Comes Up" - 23:47
- "Song for Christopher" - 20:58