Lowlife: The Paris Concert

Lowlife: The Paris Concert
Live album by Tim Berne's Bloodcount
Released April 11, 1995
Recorded September 22-25, 1994
Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, Paris, France
Genre Jazz
Length 76:17
Label JMT
JMT 514 019
Producer Stefan F. Winter
Tim Berne chronology

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(1994)		 Lowlife: The Paris Concert
(1995)		 Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert
(1995)

Lowlife: The Paris Concert is a live album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Bloodcount which was recorded in 1994 and released on the JMT label.[1][2]

Lowlife was nominated for best mainstream jazz album at the National Association of Independent Recording Distributors and Manufacturers 1995 Indie Label awards.[3]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Dave Lynch said "there is something very special about the three JMT CDs by the Bloodcount band ... In the first of the three, Lowlife, a searching quality tends to dominate the three lengthy tracks, as the band usually takes its time reaching explicit statements of Berne's (and Julius Hemphill's) thematic material. The music even meanders, but such a description shouldn't be put in a negative light. The band is in no hurry as it investigates Berne's sonic world, but is never reduced to aimless noodling; the musicians' improvisations remain too close to theme, melody, and mode -- or compelling abstraction -- for that".[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Tim Berne except as indicated

  1. "Bloodcount" - 21:59
  2. "Reflections - Lyric - Skin 1" (Julius Hemphill) - 17:07
  3. "Prelude - The Brown Dog Meets the Spaceman" - 37:20

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Tim Berne discography, accessed October 10, 2014
  2. ↑ Shimada, T., JMT label discography, accessed October 10, 2014
  3. ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (11 May 1996). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 1–. ISSN 00062510.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lynch, D., Allmusic Review accessed October 10, 2014