Shake Keane - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ralph Bruce - soprano
Al Baum - alto
Jim Easton - tenor, clarinet
Eric Allen - xylophone, glockenspiel
Don Lowes - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Joe Gibbons - drums
01 Johnnie's Door (Mack) (3:46)
02 Altona (Mack) (3:06)
03 Chiquita Moderne (Mack) (4:03)
04 Cameo (Mack) (3:40)
05 Clockwork Boogie (Mack) (3:08)
06 Tonette (Mack) (3:10)
07 Half-Tone Poem (Mack) (3:22)
08 Ralph's Mead (Mack) (3:13)
09 Dreamy Fugue (Mack) (3:43)
Columbia/Lansdowne LP 12": 33SX1670
Recorded London March 20 1964
Contributed by bluebird.
Rip by Newmill Mark, who writes
A rare British jazz album from the adventurous Columbia Lansdowne series. This seems to be the only project Mack was destined to lead on record, and I think we can safely assume it was because his ideas were a little bit more advanced than was advisable from a commercial point of view because here is one of the very few albums composed strictly in accordance with Schoenberg's twelve-tone system!
Never re-issued, on vinyl let alone CD, anyone who has read Max Harrison's approving essays in both his Jazz Retrospect and Essential Jazz Record books will have wondered what this fascinating album actually sounded like. I know I did for many years until tracking it down, and it really is an interesting and rewarding listen. Sometimes the paths jazz didn't follow seem to have held at least as much promise as those it did, and the unfamiliar but committed musicians together with the marvellous Shake Keane and Coleridge Goode from Joe Harriott's legendary quintet deserve our thanks for bringing to such vivid life this forgotten but unique work.
Vinyl rip in FLAC with front cover & part back cover scans.
Thanks Rodney and Bluebird! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen this one before. Interesting compositions and some good contributions from Shake Keane. Along with Coleridge Goode he's the only name I recognise in the line-up. Many thanks to bluebird and Rodney.
ReplyDeleteIt'a a nice album. New to me.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, Rodney & Jazzuk.
profound thanks to all for this rarity
ReplyDeleteWonderful find. Great work bluebird and Newmill Mark.
ReplyDelete'Sometimes the paths jazz didn't follow seem to have held at least as much promise as those it did' is very good.
ReplyDelete'There were two solutions to jazz problems in the 60s and the alternative to serial technique was, of course, Ornette Coleman's innovations' -- Max Harrison 'Jazz Retrospect'
He also opines that serialism in jazz had to be carried forward by improvisers, which it was not. But anyway by 1965 serialism had lost and to note is that these compositions actually date from 1958 and that, apart from Keane, who plays stunningly, and Goode, the rest are session musicians, not jazz players.
http://nightofthelivingvinyl.blogspot.de/2012/03/david-mack-new-directions-essays-for.html
ReplyDeletejust found that, what Goode says is very interesting.
This is an enormously enjoyable album; I've been listening to my copy again since the posting of Harriott's PERSONAL PORTRAIT last week and I find it *much* more satisfying and entertaining in every sense than the Harriott (which is a slight disappointment). My copy is ripped from a copy of the Serenus (US) issue I mentioned previously, acquired maybe 2-3 years back. I now feel rather guilty about not offering it up to BritJazz long long ago. But then, I am so used to getting excellent music *from* BritJazz that I never think that I might have anything I can actually contribute. and in reality I don't. (How about a copy of the first 3 Out lp - BritJazz connection being slightly stretched to include Chris Karan and Freddy Logan?)
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