Released 1961 Fusion
(1961) Thesis
(1961) | Producer Creed Taylor | |
Recorded March 3, 1961
Olmstead Studios, New York City Genre Jazz, West Coast jazz, cool jazz, third stream, chamber jazz Label Verve Records, reissued by ECM, 1992 | ||
Fusion is a 1961 album by the Jimmy Giuffre 3.
Contents
The trio on the recording was Giuffre's second drummerless group. He said at the time that the trio was “searching for a free sense of tonality and form”.
It was remastered, remixed and re-released by ECM in 1992 as a double-album with the trio's other 1961-Verve recording, Thesis (with three previously unissued tracks from the August sessions).
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "The debut recording by Jimmy Giuffre's new trio was as startling a new development in Giuffre's music as it was in jazz... The elegance and grace of this album didn't set the American jazz world on fire as Free Fall would the next year, but it did set up further textural and architectural possibilities for the trio's next album, Thesis".
Track listing
- "Jesus Maria" (Carla Bley) – 6:17
- "Emphasis" – 4:18
- "In the Mornings Out There" (Carla Bley) – 6:54
- "Scootin' About – 3:39
- "Cry, Want" – 5:13
- "Brief Hesitation" – 4:19
- "Venture" – 4:00
- "Afternoon" – 5:15
- "Trudgin'" – 4:33
All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre except as indicated.