Live at Kassiopeia Julius Hemphill and Peter Kowald SKU: NBLP4142 Barcode: NBLP4142 39.00 £39.00 Genre: Jazz Label: No Business Released Date: 23rd July 2012 Buying Format: 180g 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Musicians: Julius Hemphill – soprano and alto saxophones Peter Kowald – bass Recorded 8th January, 1987 at Kassiopeia, Wuppertal Mastered by Arunas Zujus at MAMAstudios Photos by Gerard Rouy Design by Oskaras Anosovas Producer – Danas Mikailionis Co-producer – Valerij Anosov A never earlier released duo recording that was played back in 1987 at Kassiopeia, Wuppertal brings these two great musicians and composers together for this unique and unforgettable session. Michael Rosenstein for Paris Transatlantic Julius Hemphill fans have a lot to celebrate these days with the reissue of Dogon A.D. and the inclusion of a session with Hemphill on the Aboriginal Music Society boxed set on Eremite (see above for details of both). But a real find is this previously unissued live duo concert featuring Hemphill and bassist Peter Kowald from 1987. One duo improvisation was included on Kowald\’s LP Duos America but this concert recording remained hidden away until now. Getting a chance to hear the two play together is significant enough, but equally notable is the inclusion of a full disc of solos. Things kick off with three solos by Hemphill. The reed player\’s previous solo releases Blue Boye and Roi Boye and the Gotham Minstrels are conceptual tour de force documents, capturing his singular approach to voicing multiple reed parts via multi-tracking and performing live over tapes. But on these three pieces, he sticks to unaccompanied alto, spinning out compact, relaxed statements that weave together blues, bop, and R&B, colored with edgier freedoms. His tone is biting, his phrasing unrushed and vocalized, and he twists and turns the loose, lyrical themes with masterful ease. Kowald\’s single 32-minute solo starts with a plucked, resonant theme, slowly building density with layers of arco full of rich harmonics, groaning overtones, and vocalized colorations, before reaching a quietly skittering finish. Listening to the two sets of solos back-to-back, it is difficult to imagine where the two will find common ground, and things get off to a bit of a shaky start on the initial seven-and-a-half-minute improvisation. Hemphill\’s reed smears and Kowald\’s arco oscillations circle around each other as the two struggle to find a connection, but halfway through things start to click as Hemphill\’s mounting lines carom across the bassist\’s surging momentum and settle into a slow, free-blues simmer. By the time they start the second, 36-minute improvisation, both men are firing on all cylinders: there\’s constant give and take as Hemphill\’s lithe melodicism, full of leaping intervals and circuitous lines, plays off Kowald\’s rumbling pizzicato, crying bent notes, and dark sliding tonalities. The recording quality is a bit rough at times, but the stellar music more than makes up for it. – Michael Rosenstein for Paris Transatlantic Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader The impressive Lithuanian label No Business also shared some terrific Hemphill music last year, releasing a double CD called Live at Kassiopeia that features solos and duets by Hemphill and great German bassist Peter Kowald. It was recorded live in 1987 in Wuppertal, Germany (the bassist\’s hometown), and it\’s all totally improvised. The two players interact with an easy rapport—few European free-jazz musicians worked more extensively and naturally with their American counterparts than Kowald, and Hemphill was among the most open-minded figures to emerge from the 70s jazz scene—even as their slightly different approaches create a nice tension. Kowald doesn\’t use repetition like Wadud does, preferring a more muscular and propulsive style a la William Parker, and Hemphill adapts with a rangier kind of playing. Live at Kassiopeia captures a side of Hemphill that his studio work rarely explored at such length—the centerpiece of disc two is a single cut that runs more than 36 minutes. Artist Julius Hemphill and Peter Kowald Genre Jazz Label No Business Buying Options 180g 2LP Format 180g , 2LP Condition New Country LIT Track Listings Side A Solo I (Julius Hemphill) Solo II (Julius Hemphill) Solo (Peter Kowald) Side B Solo (Peter Kowald) (continues) Side C Duo I (Julius Hemphill / Peter Kowald) Duo II (Julius Hemphill / Peter Kowald) Side D Duo II (Julius Hemphill / Peter Kowald) (continues) Duo III (Julius Hemphill / Peter Kowald) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Sons Of Kemet Your Queen Is A Reptile Jazz | Verve | 1LP Released 30th March 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sons Of Kemet Your Queen Is A Reptile £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 6736432 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Corrie Dick Sun Swells Jazz | Ubuntu Music | 1LP Released 6th October 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Corrie Dick Sun Swells £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Ubuntu Music SKU: UBU0108LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dizzy Gillespie Paris ….Always (Volume Two) Jazz | Birdland | 1LP, Includes CD Released 18th November 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dizzy Gillespie Paris ….Always (Volume Two) £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Birdland SKU: BIRD003 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 18th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Davis Miles In Berlin Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 22nd September 2017 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis Miles In Berlin £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: 62976 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Coleman Hawkins And His Confreres Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 2nd November 2006 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Coleman Hawkins And His Confreres £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: MGVS6110 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 2nd November 2006 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hank Mobley Hank Mobley Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 11th February 2009 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hank Mobley Hank Mobley £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: BLUENOTE1568 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th February 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kronos Quartet Black Angels Jazz | Nonesuch | 2LP, Etched Released 16th February 2024 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kronos Quartet Black Angels £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597905809 Formats: 2LP, Etched Released Date: 16th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View McCoy Tyner Inception Jazz | Impulse | 1LP Released 23rd August 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders McCoy Tyner Inception £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impulse SKU: 7757390 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jacob Collier DJESSE VOL. 4 Jazz | Decca | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 1st March 2024 £35.00 Select options Jacob Collier DJESSE VOL. 4 £35.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 1st March 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Jackie McLean Destination…Out! 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