2 Days in April
| 2 Days in April | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 2000 | |||
| Recorded | April 1 & 2, 1999 | |||
| Venue | Day 1: Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass, Amherst Day 2: Killian Hall, MIT, Cambridge | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 100:14 | |||
| Label | Eremite | |||
| Producer | Michael Ehlers | |||
| Fred Anderson chronology | ||||
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2 Days in April is a double album by a free jazz quartet consisting of saxophonists Fred Anderson and Kidd Jordan, bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, documenting two 1999 concerts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge. It was released on Eremite, a label founded by producer Michael Ehlers.[1] Anderson and Jordan first meeting was at a mid-80s AACM concert in Chicago, but this is their first recording together.[2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states:
There isn't anything remotely 'inside' about the playing on these two CDs. They are documents of concerts in which two brilliant veteran saxophonists engaged each other, stretched each other's musical vocabularies to the breaking point and pushed their rhythm section into places they hadn't dreamed of going before.
— Jurek, Thom. Fred Anderson - 2 Days in April: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
Track listing
- All compositions by Anderson / Drake / Jordan / Parker
Disc One: 1st Day
- – 17:26
- – 11:55
- – 15:44
- – 10:01
Disc Two: 2nd Day
- – 10:00
- – 17:17
- – 17:51
Personnel
- Fred Anderson - tenor sax
- Hamid Drake - drums
- Kidd Jordan - tenor sax
- William Parker - bass
References
- ^ 2 Days in April at Eremite Records
- ^ Original Liner Notes by Ed Hazell
- ^ Jurek, Thom. Fred Anderson - 2 Days in April: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 29, 2014.