William Hooker Ensemble
The Firmament / Fury
LabelSilkheartGenreJazz & Improvisation
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1994 release ** "Hooker's music is good, unabash ed free-jazz improvising. He and Lawrence make an effective duet: Hooker's rolling bed of drumming avoids direct comment on Lawrence's strong, Lyons-inflected alto. Of the trio and quartet tracks on the album, Pralaya and Radiance are probably the strongest. The horn players get their solo moments and do well with them, but the music is framed to emphasize the group, and that's where a listener's ears are drawn. There's good group improvising to be heard here."
Release notes
from liner notes: Produced and recorded digitally on April 24th, 1989, at Sound on Sound Recording Studio, New York City. Digital master edited at Kaleb Sounds Inc., New York City, during early May. The liner material, "Committment and legitimization in improvised music", is reproduced with the permission of William Hooker, from New Observations (No. 65, March 1989), for which Roger Riggins was the issue editor. Total time: 59:49 Tracks 5, 6 does not appear on the album.
| For The Spirit Of | |||
| 1a | Earth | 5:37 | |
| 1b | Cosmic | 4:36 | |
| 2 | Pralaya | 13:58 | |
| 3 | Lustre | 13:16 | |
| The Coming One, Evolve | |||
| 4a | The Coming One | 4:20 | |
| 4b | Evolve, Part One | 3:59 | |
| 5 | Radiance | 11:05 | |
| 6 | Evolve, Part Two | 2:42 | |
- Claude Lawrence
- Alto Saxophone (1)
- William Hooker
- Composed By, Producer [Produced By], Edited By [Digital Master], Drums, Liner Notes
- Jörgen Renhorn
- Design [Album Design], Layout
- Donald Miller
- Electric Guitar (2, 5)
- FSMAB
- Executive-Producer [For Silkheart Records]
- Keith Knox
- Executive-Producer [For Silkheart Records]
- Val Wilmer
- Photography By [Photographs By]
- Kevin Forrester
- Recorded By [Assistance]
- David Baker
- Recorded By [Digitally], Edited By [Digital Master]
- Charles Compo
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone (2 to 5)
- Masahiko Kono
- Trombone (2 to 5)
