David Murray Quintet
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David Murray Quintet with Ray Anderson & Anthony Davis is an album by David Murray
which was released on the Japanese DIW label. It was released in 1996 and features performances by Murray, Ray Anderson
, Anthony Davis
, Kenny Davis and Tommy Campbell.
David Murray (jazz musician)
David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
which was released on the Japanese DIW label. It was released in 1996 and features performances by Murray, Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson (musician)
Ray Anderson is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits of the instrument. He is a contemporary and colleague of trombonist/composer...
, Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis (composer)
Anthony Davis, better known as Tony Davis , is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music.-Biography:...
, Kenny Davis and Tommy Campbell.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Chris Kelsey awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is a first-rate album by as heavy an ad hoc group as you'll find anywhere.".Track listing
- "Stompin' at the SavoyStompin' at the Savoy"Stompin' at the Savoy" is a 1934 jazz standard composed by Edgar Sampson. It is named after the Savoy Ballroom.Although the song is credited to Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, and Edgar Sampson, and the lyrics by Andy Razaf, in reality the music was written and arranged for Chick Webb's band by...
" (SampsonEdgar SampsonEdgar Melvin Sampson was a composer, arranger, saxophonist, and violinist...
, GoodmanBenny GoodmanBenjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...
, WebbChick WebbWilliam Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.-Biography:...
) - 7:57 - "Disguise The Limit" (Anderson) - 6:17
- "Jaywalking" (Kenny Davis) - 5:42
- "Andrew" (Anthony Davis) - 10:24
- "Kiano" (Anthony Davis) - 11:55
- "Funkalific" (Anderson) - 8:53
- Recorded January 2–3, 1994
Personnel
- David MurrayDavid Murray (jazz musician)David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
- tenor saxophone, bass clarinet - Ray AndersonRay Anderson (musician)Ray Anderson is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits of the instrument. He is a contemporary and colleague of trombonist/composer...
- trombone - Anthony DavisAnthony Davis (composer)Anthony Davis, better known as Tony Davis , is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music.-Biography:...
- piano - Kenny Davis - bass
- Tommy Campbell - drums