Echo (Dave Burrell album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Echo
Type = studio
Artist = Dave Burrell


Released = August 13, 1969
Recorded =
Genre = Post-bop
Free jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Length =
Label = BYG (1969)
Get Back (2001)
Sunspots (2004)
Producer = Claude Delcloo
Jean Luc Young
Jean Georgakarakos
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t96uakok0m3p link]
*PGJ rating|3|4
Last album = "La Vie de Bohème"
(1969)
This album = "Echo"
(1969)
Next album = "Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk"
(1978)

"Echo" is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was first released as an LP album on August 13, 1969 by BYG Actuel. It was re-released twice, first again on LP by Get Back Records in 2001 before finding its way to compact disc in 2004 via Sunspots Records.

Burrell had been part of an all-star group lead by Archie Shepp that played during the 1969 Pan-African Festival in Algiers. While there, French journalists from Paris were on hand and mentioned to Burrell the possibility recording in the city. Deciding on such a venture, Burrel remarked that he "remembered the sound of the ambulances and the police cars in Algiers and that unstable interval of an augmented fourth and thought that was the interval that I wanted to put into 'Echo'." The recording was Burrell's way of honouring the group, since all were involved in the album.cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15409|title=A Fireside Chat with Dave Burrell|author=Fred Jung|date=November 10, 2004|accessdate=2006-12-28]

It has been said that the album as a whole "is [a] monster of an LP" and "a curiously schizophrenic set."cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t96uakok0m3p|title=Echo|author=Brandon Burke|accessdate=2006-12-28] "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" by Richard Cook, Brian Morton, et al. pg 189.]

Track listing

#"Echo" — 20:01
#"Peace" — 22:04

Personnel

Band:
*Dave Burrell — piano, arranger, liner notes
*Arthur Jones — saxophone (alto)
*Grachan Moncur III — trombone
*Sunny Murray — bass, drums
*Archie Shepp — saxophone (tenor)
*Alan Silva — bass
*Clifford Thornton — cornet

Production:
*Jacques Bisceglia — coordination
*Claude Delcloo — executive producer
*Claude Jauvert — engineer
*Philippe Gras — photography
*Jean Luc Young, Jean Georgakarakos — producers

Reception

Allmusic marvels at the talented ensemble whose members are each "simply blowing or pounding his respective brains out" in the first track that "becomes pleasantly numbing after a while." They even say that "if "Echo" isn't the noisiest jazz song in the world, it's damned close." "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" remarks that "Echo" is "a swirling, all-in blast that palls very quickly." Both sources mention that the second track is more structured and is welcomed after the first song's barrage. Still, "The Penguin Guide" says that "this is a historical document, hard to listen to now." In response, Burrell has mentioned in interviews that "The French did not know how to record the music, nor did anybody else. The dials were going wild and nobody really knew how to mix it back then."

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