Communications (jazz album)

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Communications
Studio album by Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Released 1968
Recorded January - July, 1968
Genre Jazz
Length 73:40
Label ECM
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Communications is a double album from the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. It is one of the more challenging avant-garde jazz albums from the 60s, but also one of the more interesting. The structure of the album is more like a classical symphony than a conventional jazz album. To a certain extent one can say the same about the moods. Still, the improvisations are quite typical of the avant-garde jazz of the time.

The album was recorded over a period of six months with the Austrian trumpeter Michael Mantler as a leader and producer. Many of the key figures in avant-garde jazz from the time contributed on the album. To mention a few: Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders and Charlie Haden (Ornette Coleman's bassist). Carla Bley is contributing on piano. She was Michael Mantler's wife at the time.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Communications #8
  2. Communications #9
  3. Communications #10
  4. Preview
  5. Communications #11 (part 1)
  6. Communications #11 (part 2)

[edit] Personnel

Gato Barbieri: Sax (Tenor)
Carla Bley: Piano
Ron Carter: Bass
Don Cherry: Cornet
Larry Coryell: Guitar
Andrew Cyrille: Drums
Richard Davis: Bass
Eddie Gomez: Bass
Beaver Harris: Drums
Jimmy Knepper: Trombone
Steve Lacy: Sax (Soprano)
Jimmy Lyons: Sax (Alto)
Michael Mantler: Conductor, Producer, Coordination, Project Coordinator
Roswell Rudd: Trombone
Steve Swallow: Bass
Lew Tabackin: Sax (Tenor)
Cecil Taylor: Piano, Liner Notes
Julius Watkins: French Horn
Howard Johnson: Tuba
Reggie Johnson: Bass
Steve Marcus: Sax (Soprano)
Charles Davis: Sax (Baritone), Baritone
Alan Silva: Bass
George Barrow: Sax (Tenor)
Randy Brecker: Flugelhorn
Kent Carter: Bass
Bob Cunningham: Bass
Bob Donovan: Sax (Alto)
Stephen Furtado: Flugelhorn
Al Gibbons: Sax (Soprano)
Paul Goodman: Engineer
Charlie Haden: Bass
Paul Haines: Liner Notes
Gene Hull: Sax (Alto)
Jack Jeffers: Trombone (Bass)
Lloyd Michels: Flugelhorn
Bob Northern: French Horn
Reggie Workman: Bass
Pharoah Sanders: Sax (Tenor)
John Tchicai: Saxophone
Frank Wess: Sax (Alto)
Timothy Marquand: Liner Notes
Paul McDonough: Artwork, Cover Design
Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell: Trumpet