Released 1988 Venue Victoriaville, Canada Label Victo Release date 1988 | Recorded October 2, 1987 Length 45:25 (LP)
57:22 (CD) Artist Marilyn Crispell Genre Jazz | |
Labyrinths
(1988) Duets Vancouver 1989
(1989) Similar Hyperion, Connecting Spirits, After Appleby, Amaryllis, Nothing Ever Was - Anyway | ||
Labyrinths is a solo album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell which was recorded live at the 1987 edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville and released on the Canadian Victo label. The CD edition adds a bonus track.
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Reception
In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Cook states "Labyrinths finds avant garde jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell balancing Cecil Taylor's cataclysmic and staunchly free piano style with her own melodic and spacious take on free improvisation."
The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that "What she creates here is logically formed, expressively coherent and quietly perfect. This is one or her best records of the '80s and certainly one of the best of the solo recordings."
Track listing
All compositions by Marilyn Crispell except where noted.
- "Threads in the Ozone" – 11:57
- "Still Womb of Light (for Ann Sheldon)" – 7:50
- "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye / Gene de Paul) – 4:45
- "Labyrinths" – 6:55
- "Lazy Bird" (John Coltrane) – 3:40
- "After the Rain" (John Coltrane) – 9:10
- "Au Chanteur Qui Danse (for Cecil Taylor)" – 8:35
- "Encore" – 2:30
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen) – 2:00
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