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Live at Koncepts

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Released
  
1991

Label
  
Taylor Made

Artist
  
Henry Threadgill

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
May 4, 1991

Producer
  
David Stone

Release date
  
1991

Live at Koncepts (1991)
  
Too Much Sugar for a Dime (1993)

Similar
  
Henry Threadgill albums, Jazz albums

Live at Koncepts is a live album by Henry Threadgill recorded at the Koncepts Cultural Gallery in Oakland, California. The album features seven of Threadgill's compositions performed by Threadgill's Very Very Circus with Mark Taylor, Brandon Ross, Masujaa Edwin Rodriguez, Marcus Rojas, and Larry Bright.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 3 stars stating "Live at Koncepts isn't at quite the level of the best of this band's studio efforts (Spirit of Nuff...Nuff may take the prize there), but is quite enjoyable on its own. Any Threadgill fan will want to hear it".

Track listing

All compositions by Henry Threadgill

  1. "Next" - 9:04
  2. "Snakes Don't Do Suicide" - 7:39
  3. "I Love You with an Asterisk" - 5:40
  4. "Someplace" - 7:30
  5. "Dangerously Slippy" - 6:51
  6. "King Kong" - 6:09
  7. "Breach of Protocol" - 8:50

Recorded at Koncepts Cultural Gallery in Oakland, CA on May 4, 1991

Personnel

  • Henry Threadgill - alto saxophone, flute, bass flute
  • Mark Taylor - french horn
  • Brandon Ross, Masujaa - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Edwin Rodriguez, Marcus Rojas - tuba
  • Larry Bright - drums percussion
  • Songs

    1Next9:52
    2Snakes Don't Do Suicide7:56
    3I Love You With an Asterisk5:43

    References

    Live at Koncepts Wikipedia