Giuffre falls clearly between the cracks of the then emergent avant-guardists like Coltrane’s quartet, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, and Ornette’s band, and the hard boppers like Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, and Horace Parlan.Giuffre didn’t straddle fences; on Fusion and Thesis, he just walked through them. Jimmy Guiffre, like Eric Dolphy, is emerging (to me at least) as one of the less-recognised original creative figures of modern jazz (not at LJC of course).Herb Snitzer’s photography is stunning, particularly that last image of the three men walled in by baffles and framed by microphone booms. I’m still unsure whether the CD was the right decision.
Once you get past investor-collector-lust for 1500-series Blue Notes it is good to seek out stimulating thought-provoking is one I return to.
It is all-but “tempo-less” , more like half-speed, time suspended, it constantly finds you pulling back on the accelerator, to stay with the stately pace, with its fragments of melody half-launched only to peter out, and a rigid determination to remain “slow”.
It maddeningly reminds me of a composition I can’t quite put my finger to.
As you play and replay tracks, some dig their claws into your consciousness, others evaporate.
ECM use the darkroom trademark film camera authenticity – file off the edges of the enlarger negative carrier, which increases the printed picture area by a few millimetres to include the film strip edge (sometimes the film brand) and part of the film sprocket guide holes, together with the picture.
It burns in to give a ragged darkened frame around the picture, with rounded corners, confirming what you see is exactly what the photographer saw in his viewfinder, the authentic vision, not something recomposed after the event, and real film, not digital.
Giuffre began leading his own sessions in 1954, with groundbreaking albums like Four Brothers and Tangents in Jazz exploring bluesy folk-jazz and third stream fusions.
In 1956, he formed the first version of the Jimmy Giuffre 3, which featured guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Ralph Pena; in 1958, the bassist was replaced by trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, resulting in the highly unorthodox-sounding albums Trav'lin' Light, Four Brothers Sound, and Western Suite, as well as a classic version of Giuffre's hit "The Train and the River" in the Newport film Jazz on a Summer's Day.
In 1949, he joined up with Woody Herman, for whom he'd penned the classic composition "Four Brothers" two years earlier.
He then moved to the West Coast, where he learned clarinet and baritone sax, and played with groups like Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars and Shorty Rogers' Giants.
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