Windward Passages
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Live album by Dave Burrell | ||||
Released | 1980 | |||
Recorded | September 13, 1979 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | hatART | |||
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Windward Passages is a live album by jazz pianist Dave Burrell that is considered "a widely acclaimed jazz-opera."[1] It was recorded on September 13, 1979 in Sweden and released by hatART Records in 1980 on double-LP. hatART released the album again on LP in 1986 and then on CD in 1994.
The album was Burrell's first collaboration with his wife, Monika Larsson, who was a Swedish writer and librettist at the time. Burrell conceived this full-length operatic album as his reply to land development in Hawaii, which was where he was raised.[2] The live performance included various vocal singers, a 21 piece orchestra, dancers and a chorus. At first, Burrell had trouble convincing some vocalists to perform with him because of how fast he played as a jazz pianist; one such example was Hilda Harris of the Metropolitan Opera who told him "I can sing it, but you're playing much too fast."[2]
Reception
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Allmusic notes that Burrell "so thoroughly a pianist, composer, and improviser that the three are inseparable in him" and that this album is the proof.[4] Reviewer Thom Jurek marvels at how, performing live, Burrell is able to provide "lyrical invention and harmonic sense of balance" and how if what he "heard was possible, let alone true."[4]
Track listing
- "Overture Windward Passages" (Burrell, Larsson) — 5:32
- "Punaluu Peter" (Burrell, Larsson) — 7:12
- "Stepping Out (Or, Monday Night Death Rehearsal)" (Burrell, Larsson) — 3:59
- "On a Saturday Night" (Burrell, Larsson) — 5:54
- "Sarah's Lament" (Burrell, Larsson) — 5:35
- "Menehune Messages/Heritage/Carnival" (Burrell, Larsson) — 4:48
- "Teardrops for Jimmy" (Burrell) — 5:16
- "I Want to See You Everyday of Your Life" (Burrell, Larsson) — 5:11
- "Black Robert" (Burrell) — 5:19
- "My Dog Has Fleas/Polynesian Dreams/Popolo Paniolo" (Burrell, Larsson) — 13:19
- "A.M. Rag" (Burrell) — 4:55
Personnel
- Dave Burrell — piano
Production:
- Klau Baumgärtner — cover art
- Walter Bosshardt, Robine Clignett — design
- David Crawford — mastering
- Craig Johnson — production coordination
- Peter Pfister — engineer, editing, recording
- Peter Rolle — photography
- Pia Uehlinger — producer
- Werner X. Uehlinger — producer, editing
References
- v
- t
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leader or
co-leader
- High Won-High Two (1968)
- Echo (1969)
- La Vie de Bohème (released 1969)
- After Love (1970)
- In: Sanity (The 360 Degree Music Experience, 1976)
- Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk (1978)
- Lush Life (1978)
- Windward Passages (hatART, 1979)
- Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (1981)
- The Jelly Roll Joys (1990)
- Recital (and Tyrone Brown, 2000)
- Expansion (2003)
- Consequences (2005)
- Margy Pargy (2005)
- Momentum (2005)
David
Murray
- Hope Scope (1987)
- Ballads (1988)
- Deep River (1988)
- Lovers (1988)
- Lucky Four (1988)
- Spirituals (1988)
- Tenors (1988)
- Daybreak (Burrell, 1989)
- Remembrances (1990)
- Death of a Sideman (1991)
- In Concert (1991)
- Picasso (1992)
- Brother to Brother (1993)
Archie
Shepp
- For Losers (1968–69)
- Kwanza (1968–69)
- The Way Ahead (1968)
- Black Gipsy (1969)
- Blasé (1969)
- Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969)
- Pitchin Can (1969–70)
- Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969)
- Things Have Got to Change (1971)
- Attica Blues (1972)
- The Cry of My People (1972)
- A Sea of Faces (1975)
- Body and Soul (1975)
- Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975)
- Montreux One (1975)
- Montreux Two (1975)
- There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975)
- U-Jaama (Unite) (1975)
- Lover Man (1988)
others
- Three for Shepp (Marion Brown, 1966)
- I Plan to Stay a Believer (William Parker, 2001–08)
- Essence of Ellington (William Parker, 2012)
- Epitome (Odean Pope, 1993)
- Black Woman (Sonny Sharrock, 1969)