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Released
  
1978

IAI Festival (1978)
  
Dragonfly (1983)

Producer
  
Paul Bley

Length
  
36:03

Release date
  
1978

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
May 19, 1978 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA

Label
  
Improvising Artists IAI 37.38.59

Artists
  
Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Lee Konitz, Bill Connors

Similar
  
Jimmy Giuffre albums, Jazz albums

IAI Festival (full title IAI Festival/Great American Music Hall/San Francisco) is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Giuffre, saxophonist Lee Konitz, guitarist Bill Connors and pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1978 which was the final release on Bley's own Improvising Artists label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars noting it is "just 37 minutes of music, but it is definitely worth hearing".

Track listing

  1. "Blues in the Closet" (Oscar Pettiford) - 5:12
  2. "The Sad Time" (Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz) - 2:34
  3. "Spanish Flames" (Giuffre, Bill Connors) - 11:26
  4. "Enter, Ivory" (Giuffre, Paul Bley) - 11:07
  5. "From Then to Then" (Giuffre, Konitz) - 5:44

Personnel

  • Jimmy Giuffre - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, bass flute
  • Lee Konitz - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 5)
  • Bill Connors - guitar (track 3)
  • Paul Bley - piano (track 4)

    • References

    IAI Festival Wikipedia
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