Marshall Vente, Project 9+, Anna Dawson
Alison's Backyard (LP)
LabelMoproGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX
Chicago, and one of those independently produced records that exist because a bandleader decided the music was worth pressing regardless of whether anybody was going to distribute it. Marshall Vente led Project 9+ around the city for years, working a Latin-inflected large-ensemble jazz that pulled in local players and never made any concession to the national market, with Anna Dawson on vocals. Private-press jazz of this kind is where most of the actual musical life of any city is documented, and almost none of it ever reaches a second pressing.
Original Mopro pressing. Chicago independent production, tiny run, and largely undocumented anywhere.
Release notes
Recorded January 1985.
| A1 | Ornithology | 7:09 | |
| A2 | Alison's Backyard | 6:25 | |
| A3 | Maybe September | 8:08 | |
| B1 | Day By Day | 5:40 | |
| B2 | Bassin' With Mason | 4:00 | |
| B3 | Moondance | 4:27 | |
| B4 | Bulls In The Night | 5:50 | |
| B5 | Bulls . . Reprise | 0:40 |
- Bill Sears
- Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet
- Chip Gdalman
- Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Flute [Alto]
- Scott Mason
- Bass, Electric Bass
- Al Keeler
- Congas, Percussion
- Rose Curnutt
- Design
- Isi Perez
- Drums
- Scott Steinman
- Engineer, Mixed By
- Frank Dawson
- Guitar
- Jewelles "Tommy" Gardner
- Photography By
- Steve Hooper
- Photography By [Cover]
- Marshall Vente
- Piano, Synthesizer, Arranged By, Conductor, Producer
- Jim Frakas
- Producer, Liner Notes
- Jim Massoth
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute
- Edwin Williams
- Trombone (A2, A3)
- Steve Berry
- Trombone
- Nick Drozdoff
- Trumpet [Lead], Flugelhorn
- Art Davis
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn
- Anna Dawson
- Vocals
