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Phil Woods, European Rhythm Machine

At The Montreux Jazz Festival (LP)

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Original Italian edition on Black Saint of the 1982 album featuring Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and David Murray.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert and obi included.

The most surprising turn in a long career. Phil Woods had spent the fifties and sixties as the most fluent bop altoist in New York, moved to France at the end of the decade, and formed a band with Gordon Beck, Henri Texier and Daniel Humair that played considerably freer and harder than anything he had done before. The European Rhythm Machine pushed him into open forms, electric textures and a level of aggression that his American reputation would never have predicted. Montreux 1969 catches it live and at full intensity.

MGM pressing. The Woods record that surprises people who think they know what he sounds like.

Details
File under: Free Jazz
Cat. number: MM 2053
Year: 1973

Release notes

Recorded in June 1969.

Tracklist
A1Capricci Cavaleschi9:50
A2I Remember Bird10:15
B1Ad Infinitum10:20
B2Riot5:12
B3Doxy4:25
Credits
Phil Woods
Alto Saxophone
Henri Texier
Bass
Daniel Humair
Drums
George Gruntz
Piano
Johnny Pate
Producer

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