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Burton Greene

Firmanence (LP)

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Sealed original and sole edition on Fore of the 1980 Italy-only album featuring Alan Silva -and Sunny Murray. Never re-issued on either vinyl or CD.

condition (record/cover): M / M (still sealed)

Burton Greene was one of the original ESP pianists, a founder member of the Jazz Composers Guild, and one of the few Americans of that generation who packed up and moved permanently to Europe rather than waiting for the American scene to catch up. Settled in Amsterdam from 1969, he spent the following decades working across free improvisation, Eastern European Jewish material and outright abstraction, usually for tiny labels and usually to no fanfare whatsoever. Firmanence comes from that European stretch, released on the small Italian Fore imprint, and it has the unguarded quality of music made entirely outside any commercial calculation.

Original Fore pressing, Italy. Deep-catalogue free music from a player who is overdue a serious reassessment.

Details
File under: Free Jazz
Cat. number: FORE 80/ONE
Year: 1980

Release notes

Recorded on October 13th 1979 at Dali Press Studio, Nederhost den Berg, Holland.

Tracklist
A1Introduction-Encounter4:20
A2Firmanence11:50
A3Sunny Monk4:26
B1Any Resemblance Between A Double Aquarian Mother And Planet Earth Is Purely Coincidental11:46
B2Mints Are Fo(u)r Moon People12:22
Credits
Studio Gandolfo
Artwork
Alan Silva
Bass, Vibraphone, Percussion, Voice
Sunny Murray
Drums, Percussion
Rob Van Schoonderwalt
Engineer
Burton Greene
Liner Notes, Piano, Piano [Prepared], Percussion, Voice
Giulio Paolini
Painting [Cover]
Pino Varchetta
Photography By
Dario Barassi
Producer