Released 1995 Venue HotHouse, Chicago Spring Tour
(1995) Destiny
(1995) Producer Marilyn Crispell Genre Jazz | Recorded April 8, 1994 Length 66:41 Release date 1995 Label Okka Disk | |
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Destiny
(1995) Live at Mills College 1995
(1995) Artists Marilyn Crispell, Hamid Drake Similar Hamid Drake albums, Jazz albums | ||
Destiny is an album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell with saxophonist Fred Anderson and drummer Hamid Drake recorded in the 1994 "Women of the New Jazz" festival at Chicago’s HotHouse and released on Okka Disk.
Contents
Background
First time she heard Anderson playing tenor sax at the Velvet Lounge, Crispell knew she would work with him. Asked with whom she wanted to play at the festival, she took the opportunity. Crispell and Drake had already worked together as a trio with German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, playing a short run of concerts that resulted in the album Hyperion, released on Music & Arts.The three musicians had played together only in a studio rehearsal the day before the live show.
Reception
In her review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "this is an incredible performance by a stunning group of musicians whose skill and chemistry completely sidestep the fact that this is only the second time that these three great jazz improvisers ever played together."
The Down Beat review by Jon Andrews says that Anderson "communicates without the harshness and split tones that alienated many listener in that era" and notes that Crispell "displays a broad range of expression from percussive rage to crystalline delicacy."
Track listing
All compositions by Marilyn Crispell, Hamid Drake, Fred Anderson- "Destiny 1" - 14:16
- "Destiny 2" - 8:26
- "Destiny 3" - 7:29
- "Destiny 4" - 13:36
- "Destiny 5" - 14:37
- "Destiny 6" - 8:17