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Thesis (album)

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Released
  
1961

Length
  
34:31

Release date
  
1961

Recorded
  
August 7–8, 1961

Artist
  
Jimmy Giuffre

Label
  
Verve Records

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Thesis (1961)
  
Emphasis, Stuttgart 1961 (1961)

Genres
  
Jazz, Cool jazz, West Coast jazz, Third stream, Chamber jazz

Producers
  
Creed Taylor, Manfred Eicher, Jean-Philippe Allard

Similar
  
Jimmy Giuffre albums, Jazz albums

Thesis 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, Fusion (with three previously unissued tracks from the August sessions).

Track listing

  1. "Ictus" (Carla Bley) - 2:44
  2. "That's True, That's True" - 4:41
  3. "Sonic" - 4:44
  4. "Whirrrr" - 4:54
  5. "Carla" (Paul Bley) - 4:35
  6. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 4:56
  7. "Flight" - 3:21
  8. "The Gamut" - 4:37

Additional tracks on 1992 ECM reissue:

  1. "Me Too" - 5:03
  2. "Temporarily" (Carla Bley) - 6:09
  3. "Herb & Ictus" - 0:44

All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre, except as otherwise noted.

Personnel

  • Jimmy Giuffre - clarinet
  • Paul Bley - piano
  • Steve Swallow - bass

    • Songs

    1Ictus2:46
    2Carla4:39
    3Sonic4:49

    References

    Thesis (album) Wikipedia
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