George RussellFeaturing: Don Cherry
At The Beethoven Hall (2LP)
LabelMPS RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (records/cover): NM / EX
Gatefold sleeve. Insert and obi included.
1965, Stuttgart, and the theorist who gave the music its modal grammar is on stage in Europe with a working sextet. George Russell had written the Lydian Chromatic Concept in the fifties, handed Miles and Coltrane the theoretical apparatus for everything that followed, and then spent years unable to get proper work in America. He moved to Scandinavia. At The Beethoven Hall catches the European band with Don Cherry in the front line, playing Russell's compositions at length: dense, rhythmically knotted writing, wide open solo space, and an argument between composition and improvisation that neither side wins.
German MPS double LP. Russell's European exile produced his best live recordings and this is the finest of them.
Release notes
Recorded in concert August 31, 1965 at Beethoven Hall, Stuttgart. Comes with MPS/BYG Catalogue insert.
| A1 | Freein' Up | 12:44 | |
| A2 | Lydia And Her Friends | 6:53 | |
| B1 | Lydia In Bags Groove | 5:22 | |
| B2 | Lydia's Confirmation | 7:03 | |
| B3 | Lydia Round Midnight | 3:43 | |
| B4 | Takin' Lydia Home | 2:05 | |
| C1 | You Are My Sunshine | 10:40 | |
| C2 | Oh Jazz, Po Jazz | 5:38 | |
| D1 | Oh Jazz, Po Jazz (Continued) | 5:51 | |
| D2 | Volupte | 12:09 |
- Cameron Brown
- Bass
- Al Heath
- Drums
- Rolf Donner
- Engineer [Recording]
- Gigi Berendt
- Graphics
- Phil Reilly
- Graphics
- Ove Alström
- Photography By [Cover]
- Manfred Schaeffer
- Photography By [Inside]
- George Russell
- Piano
- Joachim E. Berendt
- Producer, Liner Notes
- H. G. Brunner-Schwer
- Recording Supervisor [Recording Director]
- Willi Fruth
- Recording Supervisor [Recording Director]
- Ray Pitts
- Tenor Saxophone
- Brian Trentham
- Trombone
- Bertil Loewgren
- Trumpet
- Don Cherry
- Trumpet
