11 December 2008

Andrew Cyrille-'Junction' (why not/Trio japan -lp pa-71)1976






















Something special..
a stunning set, from one of my very favourite musicians...this has been out of circulation way too long.
as much as i like Sunny Murray ,Milford Graves,Tony Oxley ..and DOZENS OF OTHERS
Andrew Cyrille is the master post free, jazz drummer as far as i'm concerned ...nothing i can say here will do the man justice.

He first came to prominence in the mid 60's appearing on classic Walt Dickerson quartet dates for prestige 'new jazz 'and audio fidelity..he'd also previously recorded with Coleman Hawkins among others.
most here will know him as Cecil Taylors drummer of a dozen or so years standing..his most conceptually in tune drummer from my point of view.

The late 70's was an era of creative resurgence and eclectic syntheses after the Dead End, purveyance of slick Light weight fusion,and the grotesque formulaic excesses of would be funksters and card board cut out hard boppers.

A certain postmodern sensibility seemed to flower out of the ashes of what some might call the 2nd wave of the 'new thing', that sensibility was of course already present in the work of members of the AACM... irony and savage satire co-existing with playful homage..even reverence for the past.

Cyrilles band Moano was there in the midst of it all drawing on and combining stylistic elements of all previous subgenres in jazz and whatever else they felt like using.
for Me the great enduring classic in this vein is Cyrille and moano's Meta Musicians stomp(1978) on black saint .
ON the other hand they sometimes also laid down ferocious freely improvised sets, this is perhaps more "free" but none the less compelling.
its clear that some of the 'tunes'owe something to cecil taylor's shamans chant, no surprise given that Cyrille ,Daniel, and Ware were at the time all still members of CT's unit.

ted daniel plays mostly electric trumpet and flugelhorn(uncredited)here..sounding more than a bit like the forbear of what T.Kondo often does in the classic Die like a dog quartet dates on FMP.
anyone who likes this ought to check out virtually anything Cyrille has ever done... starting with metamusicians stomp 1978, Nuba 1979, and special people 1980
all excellent black saint release.

'junction was recorded live at Sam Rivers rivbea studios may 3rd 1976 ...and at wollman auditorium, Columbia university on june 12 1976
personnel
Cyrille- perc,sanza,voice, composer
Ted Daniel-trpt ,flugelhorn, flute
lisle Atkinson-db
David S Ware-tenor sax


covers included in both fl ac and lame files.
BTW/ I'm willing to be schooled in the finer points of photographing images and record covers ..i only have a cheap 6 mega pixel camera, and find it excruciatingly difficult.


for those having problems with the vbr link ...try this
http://rs409l32.rapidshare.com/files/171986211/junctshun.zip.zip

28 comments:

  1. sotise-you're knocking yourself out here lately, another great and rare post. I'm with you on your assessment of Cyrille. No matter how "out" the music, he always makes it dance.

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  2. Hi,

    Thanks for another great post, but the VBR link don't work.

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  3. Looking forward to hearing this one. I just sold off the Cyrille album w/Ted Daniel and Sonelius Smith among many other LPs to uh...eat, so this makes a nice substitute. Does anyone have the Cyrille album Celebration or the one with Jimmy Lyons and Jeanne Lee called Nuba?

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  4. I have the Nuba record, wch I downloaded off of emusic. (They just picked up the whole Soul Note/Black Saint catalog.) The bitrate is pretty modest, though (172-196 kbps). I can post it if folks think it'd be appropriate.

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  5. Listened to side A which is just beautiful, thanks. However, when I checked parts 2 & 3 of the flac files they seemed to both have the covers without side 2.

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  6. my modem's been out of commission for a week....im back.
    anon ..the vbr links are fine.
    Keri...you should have three files
    side a 1...side a 2....2'30''
    side b....
    its all there....ive just checked....
    sometimes downloads fail, for various reasons...download it again.
    s

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  7. dear sotise, can you please do something with the mp3 link?

    the flac is too big for my resources...

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  8. emerald blue..the link worked for me.
    try this
    http://rs409l32.rapidshare.com/files/171986211/junctshun.zip.zip

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  9. thanks
    looking at Cyrille Ware pair i wondering does somebody have an album of Rashied Ali where Charles Gayle was first recordered?

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  10. thank you very much for the new link, sotise. this one worked fine. I'm an admirer of d.s.ware and my earliest recordings of him are from '77 - BIRTH OF A BEING (w.GENE Y.ASHTON aka COOPER-MOORE & MARC D.EDWARDS) and '78 - FROM SILENCE TO MUSIC (w.JEAN-CHARLES CAPON). so this cyrille date precedes them, making me curious about his sound... oh, I just remember this cecil taylor enja disc, that might be done before JUNCTION: CECIL TAYLOR - DARK TO THEMSELVES (w.RAPHE MALIK / JIMMY LYONS / DAVID S.WARE / MARC EDWARDS).

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  11. thanks sotise -- this recording is super hard to find!

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  12. Wow, this is great - thank you!

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  13. Here attaching Andrew Cyrille - Celebration, ripped from vynil. This album includes tunes of several aspect, from ethnic, typical free style, electric music. Enjoy it!
    http://rapidshare.com/files/438023593/Andrew_Cyrille___Maono_-_Celebration_mp3_fm_Vinyl_.zip

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  14. Here attaching Andrew Cyrille - Celebration, ripped from vynil. I have already attached this to the part of Maono. But, as I guess it would be easier to find out, again I attach here.

    This album includes tunes of several aspect, from ethnic, typical free style, electric music. Enjoy it!
    http://rapidshare.com/files/438023593/Andrew_Cyrille___Maono_-_Celebration_mp3_fm_Vinyl_.zip

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  15. Junction
    new rip
    https://mega.co.nz/#!wMkGyQwC!M-DtaiKjSr20L1uTZzphB0kKezlBlmNXoDOCyRQg4_c

    19-4-013

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  16. Thanks Sotise. What a beautiful one!

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  17. Please reup, thanks for the incredible music!

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  18. Could someone explain differece between two issues.... ?
    https://www.discogs.com/Andrew-Cyrille-Junction/release/6473085
    https://www.discogs.com/Andrew-Cyrille-M%C4%81%C5%8Dn%C5%8D-With-David-Ware-Ted-Daniel-Lisle-Atkinson-Junction/release/2553668

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  19. Can anyone reupload this jewel?
    I would really appreciate

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  20. @Bhowani
    Both versions that you provide are the same, obviously coming from two different lp but the same, the Japanese version.
    If we compare on discogs, it seems that there is only one title shared by both versions: Junction. On the Japanese version this title is on the side b, on the self released us pressing it is on the side a. One could suggest that the difference is only on the fact that both sides have been changed and perhaps the name titles are not the same but if my memory is right I had a rip of the us pressing and one side was completely different. I haven't kept this rip because it was a bad mp3 full of surface noises.
    But if someone have the US pressing it would be great to post, then we can have finally the answer.

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  21. "Andrew Cyrille & Maono - Junction" US pressing, IPS ST003 (LP Rip, Lossless).

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PxWKWdcCkCrjq1Gsddk5JcncrzsLzakN/view?usp=sharing

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  22. This is definitely an upgrade for me; thank you very much!

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  23. The Japanese edition published on trio records will be reissued on cd in Japan by Ultra Vybes in the middle of May.
    I Don't know if it will includes the two tracks that are different on the US pressing or if it will only be a reissue of the Japanese version.
    In any case it is a very good news.

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