19 January 2011

Wallace McMillan - Live in Florence '79


LaRoy Roosevelt "Wallace" McMillan, is a name that probably few
people remember today, but during the seventies he was a regular
contributor to the likes of M.R.Abrams, W.L.Smirh, A.Braxton, H.
Threadgill, R.Mitchell and many others. Is sufficient to recall his
presennce in the R.Mitchell's masterpiece "Nonaah".
So forgotten that it is impossible to find a picture of him on the Web...

Rec. live in Florence, Italy, on July 3, 1979
(mics recording)

Wallace McMillan,alto & soprano saxes,flute,percussion

1. Improvisation (55:49)
2. Encore (10:11)

Total Time 1:06:11
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16 comments:

  1. riccardo19 January 2011 at 17:03:00 CET

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  2. matt w19 January 2011 at 20:03:00 CET

    I think he's the seated one in the picture of the band from Threadgill's X-75 vol. 1:

    http://ninegreychairs.blogspot.com/2010/01/x75-volume-1-henry-threadgill-arista.html

    It was kind of amazing that McMillan played on an album with Threadgill, Jarman, and Ewart and played more instruments than any of them.

    (And, thanks for posting this!)

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  3. matt w19 January 2011 at 20:14:00 CET

    It looks like McMillan was also on a pretty recent Douglas Ewart big band album (Velvet Fire), so he's probably still out there playing, thankfully, even if the record companies and internet have forgotten him.

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  4. Igor23 January 2011 at 10:35:00 CET

    Excellent performance by a very competent musician. It is a shame that he is so criminally under recorded.
    Many thanks, riccardo.

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  5. Anonymous26 January 2011 at 15:46:00 CET

    thanks for the link and the artist lesson

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  6. JC29 January 2011 at 00:53:00 CET

    Thanks very much for preserving (and making available to us) such history.

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  7. Alec30 January 2011 at 00:09:00 CET

    Thank you! Your collection amazes!

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  8. john11 February 2011 at 14:44:00 CET

    thanks, this looks an interesting addition to Chicago solo sax.

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  9. Anonymous17 April 2011 at 21:51:00 CEST

    Wallace with George Lewis 5tet @ Moers 79 can be found here: http://restinbits.blogspot.com/2009/11/george-lewis-quintet-homage-to-charlie.html

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  10. Anonymous29 September 2014 at 23:10:00 CEST

    Hi Can someone repost this one?
    I remember McMillan in a Muhal Richard Abrams Quartet with Baikida Carroll and Thurman Barker in the '80s. McMillan is a great player, it's a pity we have nothing about himself.
    Alessandro

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  11. Anonymous4 June 2015 at 22:22:00 CEST

    Please can someone post a reseed of this rarity, maybe the only one solo performance recorded by McMillan?
    Thanks
    Alessandro

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  12. kinabalu7 June 2015 at 21:54:00 CEST

    New Link:

    1fichier

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  13. Anonymous8 June 2015 at 20:59:00 CEST

    Thank you kinabalu, all Riccardo's posts are very interesting and rare, lile I said I saw McMillan in Muhal's quartet in 1982, I was very young and this "new" music was very compelling, in those years I saw Rova, Hans Reichl, Bill Dixon the incredible Sun Ra Arkestra and so on.
    Thanks
    Alessandro

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  14. DW9 June 2015 at 03:04:00 CEST

    riccardo, kinabalu, thank you!!

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  15. volumeselector19 July 2019 at 01:44:00 CEST

    New link https://mega.nz/#!DNRFVIxB!Ri55oOK3v4S8FpzsA3X03C6KNF55zp_0k8vy3__7D3s

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  16. francisco santos20 July 2019 at 02:00:00 CEST

    BIG THX!...

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