Home (Steve Swallow album)
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Home is an album by bassist Steve Swallow
featuring poetry by Robert Creeley
recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.
Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow is a jazz double bass and bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley...
featuring poetry by Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2½ stars calling it an "Interesting concept".Track listing
- All music by Steve Swallow and text by Robert Creeley
- "Some Echoes" - 5:35
- ""She Was Young..." (From "The Finger")" - 3:32
- ""Nowhere One..."" - 4:57
- "Colors" - 4:22
- "Home" - 3:20
- "In the Fall" - 4:00
- ""You Didn't Think..."" - 2:53
- "Ice Cream" - 4:16
- "Echo" - 5:22
- "Midnight" - 3:42
- Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in New York in September 1979
Personnel
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