The Kitchen Concert
The Kitchen Concert | ||||
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Live album by Marilyn Crispell | ||||
Released | 1991 | |||
Recorded | February 2, 3 & 4, 1989 | |||
Venue | The Kitchen, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 50:11 | |||
Label | Leo | |||
Producer | Leo Feigin | |||
Marilyn Crispell chronology | ||||
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The Kitchen Concert is an album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell, which was recorded live at The Kitchen, New York City in 1989 and released on the English Leo label.[1]
Background
The primary inspirations on the album include the blues, African drumming and the music of Lennie Tristano. The pieces were commissioned by the New York arts organisation Roulette as part of their tenth birthday celebrations. Crispell, bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Gerry Hemingway played together many times in the Anthony Braxton quartet, but this was their debut performance as a trio.[2]
The title of the composition "What of it I Refuse Awakes the Wide-Eyed Stone" is from a line in the poem "The Sleeping Rocks" by Nathaniel Mackey, published in the 1985 collection Eroding Witness.[3] The score was published in a special issue of Callaloo dedicated to Mackey.[4]
Reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [5] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [6] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "This marks a slight but significant change of direction. In place of free or structured improvisation, The Kitchen Concert documents a first, rather tentative, confrontation with written forms of her own."[6]
Track listing
All compositions by Marilyn Crispell
- "Solstice" – 4:44
- "What of it I Refuse Awakes the Wide-Eyed Stone" – 7:42
- "Alchemy" – 8:05
- "Ahmadu/Sierra Leone" – 8:23
- "Night Light Beach I" – 5:06
- "For L.T." – 15:58
Personnel
References
- ^ Marilyn Crispell Sessionography by Rick Lopez
- ^ Original Liner Notes by Graham Lock
- ^ Mackey, Nathaniel (1986). Eroding Witness. University of Illinois Press.
- ^ Crispell, Marilyn (Spring 2000). "What of It I Refuse Awakes the Wide-Eyed Stone". Callaloo. 23 (2): 606–607.
- ^ "Marilyn Crispell: The Kitchen Concert". AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (2nd ed.). London: Penguin. p. 301. ISBN 0140179496.
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