Live at Mills College, 1995
| Live at Mills College, 1995 | |
|---|---|
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| Live album by | |
| Released | 1995 |
| Recorded | January 27, 1995 |
| Venue | Mills College, Oakland, California |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Music & Arts CD-899 |
Live at Mills College, 1995 is a live solo piano album by Marilyn Crispell. It was recorded at Mills College in Oakland, California in January 1995, and was released later that year by Music & Arts.[1]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz |  [3] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [4] |
| Tom Hull – on the Web | B+[5] |
In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "Though Crispell has been recording since the 1980s, it was this set... that drew her finally into her own spotlight as both a composer and as a pianist... Crispell reveals a tonal language that includes a nearly staggering harmonic range and the timbral studies to match. Her tonal clusters are reined and freed by her ricocheting hands turning rhythmic constructs into dust and erecting new dynamics from old textural ideas. Her two hands are so busy, corralling the polytonal atmospheres she erects, that the listener can become literally dizzied by their effect... she presents a refracted vision of our fragmented musical landscape and heals it through the exploration of sonic architectures both complex and mysterious. In a word, she's awesome."[2]
The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 3½ stars, calling it "very much a showcase performance," and praising "As Our Tongues Lap Up The Burning Air" as "incendiary." They commented: "Neither the hall acoustic nor the piano sounds quite right for a recital at a major music college, but it's possible that the poor thing is going out of tune as she plays. It has been known."[3]
Track listing
- "Fragments" (Crispell) – 16:30
- "Nowhere" (Crispell) / "Reflections" (Thelonious Monk) – 11:32
- "As Our Tongues Lap Up The Burning Air" (Crispell) / "Song For Abdullah" (Crispell) / "Apart" (Crispell) – 14:28
- "Night Moves" (Crispell) / "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" (Ben Weisman) / "Omberg" (Crispell) – 13:09
- "Drums" (Crispell) – 3:31
Personnel
- Marilyn Crispell – piano
References
- ^ "Marilyn Crispell: Live at Mills College, 1995". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
- ^ a b Jurek, Thom. "Marilyn Crispell: Live at Mills College, 1995". AllMusic. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1998). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin Books. pp. 357–358.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 213.
- ^ Hull, Tom. "Recycled Goods (#105)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 14, 2022.