16 August 2007

DAVID MURRAY AND LOW CLASS CONSPIRACY- FLOWERS FOR ALBERT( LIVE AT THE BIM HUIS AMSTERDAM AUG 18, 1977) LAME 320




stanley crouch, free jazz drummerman ?
Here’s a great one , from a very adventurous youthful david murray, this was a seasoned band, and it contains some of murrays most "out" playing ever, I have to confess im a huge fan of murrays , and this period from roughly 75- 82 produced some of the best so called “free jazz” tenor in the history of the music, this is well on par and in my view better than what people like gayle, and david s ware are now doing, somewhat different too, although theres no doubting albert aylers influence here(flowers for albert is a dedication to ayler)
1960’s sonny Rollins is also a huge influence.
With butch morris , fred Hopkins, and the great don pullen on board, you pretty much get the idea in advance that its going to burn red hot.
A lot of free jazz snobs who are suspicious of virtuosity and prefer a noisy staccato attack , and full on multi phonic assault, view murray as a sellout, I love (very selectively his later stuff too) and if possible I recommend to their attentions the very moving tribute to don pullen on diw called ‘the long goodbye’.

The real surprise for younger people here must surely be Stanley crouches’s presence as drummer with this band, crouch is now best known as a reactionary critic who dismisses cecil taylor as not being in the black music tradition at all, and who through his enormous power over the likes of protégés like wynton marsallis has spread his neo con dogma,throughout all mediums including television and film the most notorious example being his presence as eminence grise behind the scenes of ken burns series about jazz.

Crouch was once a stalwart of the loft scene, who though no where near as inventive and authoritative as milford graves , Andrew cyrille and sunny murray , or phillip Wilson(who also drummed with this group), none the less does surpassingly well.
This was originally released as 2 separate albums vol1 “penthouse jazz’ and vol2 “holy siege on intrigue”
This rip though was taken from the semi bootleg cd released in 1990 on the westwind label which is now out of print.

Here are the details
David Murray
DAVID MURRAY AND LOW CLASS CONSPIRACY FLOWERS FOR ALBERT
West Wind 2039 (Germany CD - 1990)
Recorded August 18, 1977 at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam
David Murray (ts), Lawrence "Butch" Morris (c), Don Pullen (p), Fred Hopkins (b), Stanley Crouch (d)

1. Flowers For Albert (Murray) 3:45
2. Patricia - Lost And Lonely (Murray) 7:41
3. Holy Seige On Intrigue (Murray) 41:49
4. Joann's Green Satin Dress (Morris) 16:13

view david murrays discog here
http://members.tripod.com/go54321/dm/session1.html
visit murrays home page
http://members.tripod.com/go54321/dm/session1.html
BUY DAVID MURRAY ALBUMS
LINKS IN COMMENTS


16 comments:

  1. MP3 320 KBS
    (SPLIT ARCHIVE)
    http://rapidshare.com/files/49054669/fl_f_al.part1.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/49059463/fl_f_al.part2.rar

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks for this beauty!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Just FYI, this cd is missing one track from Volume 1, "Dewey's Circle", which i guess they left off to make this fit on a single cd. Of course, that is my favorite track from the two LPs--and the best one imo! (And here's another instance of Don Pullen suffering from lousy sound engineering--it sounds like he's playing in a different club he's so low in the mix. Bummer!)

    ReplyDelete
  4. could you repost this one,,,, please!

    ReplyDelete
  5. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  6. See info here:

    http://www.discogs.com/artist/David+Murray+%26+Low+Class+Conspiracy

    ReplyDelete
  7. I think it's universally agreed that Crouch was a far finer drummer than a writer. The drivel he wrote for many years is unparalleled. Most interesting however is the fact that he allegedly gave up drumming after hearing, (and realising he couldn't compete with) ... Famoudou Don Moye.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Some may have noticed that the sound quality of the reupped DM double lp on Circle was, shall we say, sligtly less than optimal. So glmlr has offered to supply us with digital copies of his own records. And oo they sound better!

    So please disregard my post above. I'll delete it to avoid confusion.


    New links:

    Vol. 1 - Penthouse Jazz

    http://www48.zippyshare.com/v/17854945/file.html

    http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/8907100/file.html


    Vol. 2 - Holy Siege on Intrigue

    http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/75993447/file.html

    http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/65134784/file.html


    Thanks again to glmlr for services to humankind!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Sotise, glmlr, and kinabalu: Thank you all very much!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Refreshed links for glmlr's rips:
    Vol. 1 - Penthouse Jazz - http://depositfiles.com/files/ota0x8lpk
    Vol. 2 - Holy Siege on Intrigue - http://depositfiles.com/files/8w68s8che

    ReplyDelete
  11. Hi, any chance of a re-up of Vol. 1 - Penthouse Jazz. The DepositFile link is dead (Holy Siege is still live if anyone's wondering). Thanks guys.

    ReplyDelete
  12. both DF links are now dead

    zippy would be good

    ReplyDelete