Description
Jazz Loft Sessions / Julius Hemphill, David Murray, Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett, Michael Jackson, Kalaparusha, Anthony Braxton, Randy Weston, Dave Burrell, Sunny Murray / Douglas Music Audio CD 1996 / ND 215
UPC 3549001010085
Label: Douglas Music – ADC4
Format: CD
Country: US
Released: 1996
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz, Free Jazz
Hamiet Bluiett
American jazz baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer, born September 16, 1940 in Brooklyn (or Lovejoy), Illinois, died October 4, 2018.
Herman Davis Burrell
American jazz piano, keyboard and organ player, born September 10, 1940 in Middletown, Ohio.
Michael Gregory Jackson
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, mandolin, flute, timpani, marimba, percussion, harmonica etc.), born August 28, 1953 in New Haven, CT.
Anthony Delano Braxton
Born 4 June 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Influential experimental composer and saxophonist. Member of the AACM where he was influenced by mentors Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell and friends Joseph Jarman, Wadada Leo Smith and Leroy Jenkins, among others. In 1969, Braxton recorded For Alto. the first full-length album for unaccompanied saxophone. To date, Braxton has composed over 350 compositions, many titled with diagrams rather than words.
Julius Arthur Hemphill
Avant-garde jazz saxophonist, born January 24, 1938, died of complications from heart disease and diabetes on April 2, 1995 at the age of 57.
Hemphill is probably best known as the founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, a group he formed in 1976 and left in the early 1990s.
American jazz baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer, born September 16, 1940 in Brooklyn (or Lovejoy), Illinois, died October 4, 2018.
Herman Davis Burrell
American jazz piano, keyboard and organ player, born September 10, 1940 in Middletown, Ohio.
Michael Gregory Jackson
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, mandolin, flute, timpani, marimba, percussion, harmonica etc.), born August 28, 1953 in New Haven, CT.
Anthony Delano Braxton
Born 4 June 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Influential experimental composer and saxophonist. Member of the AACM where he was influenced by mentors Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell and friends Joseph Jarman, Wadada Leo Smith and Leroy Jenkins, among others. In 1969, Braxton recorded For Alto. the first full-length album for unaccompanied saxophone. To date, Braxton has composed over 350 compositions, many titled with diagrams rather than words.
Julius Arthur Hemphill
Avant-garde jazz saxophonist, born January 24, 1938, died of complications from heart disease and diabetes on April 2, 1995 at the age of 57.
Hemphill is probably best known as the founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, a group he formed in 1976 and left in the early 1990s.
Tracklist:
| 1 | –Hamiet Bluiett | Tranquil Beauty | 5:45 |
| 2 | –Kalaparusha | Jays | 6:11 |
| 3 | –Byard Lancaster | Over The Rainbow | 5:48 |
| 4 | –Dave Burrell | Black Robert | 5:43 |
| 5 | –Michael Jackson |
Clarity | 6:09 |
| 6 | –David Murray | Shout Song | 2:45 |
| 7 | –Randy Weston | Portrait Of Frank Edward Weston | 9:17 |
| 8 | –Ken McIntyre | Naomi | 6:31 |
| 9 | –Julius Hemphill | Pensive | 9:54 |
| 10 | –Anthony Braxton | 73o S-Kelvin | 6:41 |
- Engineer – Ron Saint Germain
- Engineer [Assistant] – Les Kahn
- Engineer [Remote] – Matt Murray
- Executive-Producer – Harley I. Lewin
- Liner Notes – Ross Firestone
- Mastered By – Joe Gastwirt
- Photography By – Peter Harron
- Producer – Alan Douglas, Michael Cuscina
- Reissue Producer – Guy M. Manganiello
