Vintage Duets

Vintage Duets
Studio album by Fred Anderson
Released 1994
Recorded January 11, 1980
Soto Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Length 44:28
Label Okka Disk
Producer Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson chronology

The Missing Link
(1984)
Vintage Duets
(1994)
The Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 1
(2000)

Vintage Duets is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with drummer Steve McCall.

Background

Before joining Henry Threadgill's Air trio, McCall worked with Anderson at various points from early in his career, playing together in 1966 on Joseph Jarman's Song For, a seminal document of the AACM. Vintage Duets was recorded in 1980 at the request of the tiny Austrian Message label, but the company went out of business before the album was released and finally the tapes were the primary instigation that started Bruno Johnson's Okka Disk label in 1994. The album was Anderson's first recording released in a decade.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz [3]

In his review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "is not only energetic and masterful, but somehow so full, warm, and grounded that (to free-jazz ears) it is also soothing."[2]

Track listing

  1. "Within" - 21:17
  2. "Wandering" - 23:11

Personnel

References

  1. Vintage Duets at Okka Disk
  2. 2.0 2.1 Layne, Joslyn. Fred Anderson – Vintage Duets: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 43. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.