Communications (jazz album)

Infobox Album
Name = Communications
Type = Album
Artist = Jazz Composer's Orchestra


Released = 1968
Recorded = January - July, 1968
Genre = Jazz
Length = 73:40
Label = ECM
Reviews = *amg|id=10:kxfexqlgldae|rating|4.5|5
Last album = ""

This album = "Communications"
(1968)
Next album = ""

"Communications" is a double album from the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. It is one of the more challenging avant-garde jazz albums from the 60s, but also one of the more interesting. The structure of the album is more like a classical symphony than a conventional jazz album. To a certain extent one can say the same about the moods. Still, the improvisations are quite typical of the avant-garde jazz of the time.

The album was recorded over a period of six months with the Austrian trumpeter Michael Mantler as a leader and producer. Many of the key figures in avant-garde jazz from the time contributed on the album. To mention a few: Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders and Charlie Haden (Ornette Coleman's bassist). Carla Bley is contributing on piano. She was Michael Mantler's wife at the time.

Track listing

# "Communications #8" - 14:03
# "Communications #9" - 8:14
# "Communications #10" - 13:42
# "Preview" - 3:29
# "Communications #11" (part 1) - 15:32
# "Communications #11" (part 2) - 18:14

Personnel

Gato Barbieri: Sax (Tenor)

Carla Bley: Piano

Ron Carter: Bass

Don Cherry: Cornet

Larry Coryell: Guitar

Andrew Cyrille: Drums

Richard Davis: Bass

Eddie Gomez: Bass

Beaver Harris: Drums

Jimmy Knepper: Trombone

Steve Lacy: Sax (Soprano)

Jimmy Lyons: Sax (Alto)

Michael Mantler: Conductor, Producer, Coordination, Project Coordinator

Roswell Rudd: Trombone

Steve Swallow: Bass

Lew Tabackin: Sax (Tenor)

Cecil Taylor: Piano, Liner Notes

Julius Watkins: French Horn

Howard Johnson: Tuba

Reggie Johnson: Bass

Steve Marcus: Sax (Soprano)

Charles Davis: Sax (Baritone), Baritone

Alan Silva: Bass

George Barrow: Sax (Tenor)

Randy Brecker: Flugelhorn

Kent Carter: Bass

Bob Cunningham: Bass

Bob Donovan: Sax (Alto)

Stephen Furtado: Flugelhorn

Al Gibbons: Sax (Soprano)

Paul Goodman: Engineer

Charlie Haden: Bass

Paul Haines: Liner Notes

Gene Hull: Sax (Alto)

Jack Jeffers: Trombone (Bass)

Lloyd Michels: Flugelhorn

Bob Northern: French Horn

Reggie Workman: Bass

Pharoah Sanders: Sax (Tenor)

John Tchicai: Saxophone

Frank Wess: Sax (Alto)

Timothy Marquand: Liner Notes

Paul McDonough: Artwork, Cover Design

Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell: Trumpet