View basket “Milt Jackson and The Thelonious Monk Quartet” has been added to your basket. 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 Duke Pearson The Phantom Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 30th October 2020 £33.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Duke Pearson The Phantom £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 881136 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 30th October 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Pharoah Sanders Africa Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 21st July 2023 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pharoah Sanders Africa £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2947O Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 21st July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thelonious Monk Monk Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 5th January 2024 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thelonious Monk Monk £31.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3427C Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Anne Bisson Blue Mind Jazz | Fidelio Audio | 180g, 1LP Released 10th December 2013 £35.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Anne Bisson Blue Mind £35.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Fidelio Audio SKU: AFDA025 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th December 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charlie Rouse Bossa Nova Bacchanal Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 5th May 2007 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charlie Rouse Bossa Nova Bacchanal £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: BLUENOTE4119 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th May 2007 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Don Cherry Here And Now Jazz | Real Gone Music | 1LP Released 10th March 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Don Cherry Here And Now £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Real Gone Music SKU: RLGM15061PMI Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Coltrane Coltrane’s Sound (Atlantic 75 Series) (SACD) Jazz | Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) | SACD Released 25th December 2025 £45.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders John Coltrane Coltrane’s Sound (Atlantic 75 Series) (SACD) £45.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) SKU: CAPA 040 SA Formats: SACD Released Date: 25th December 2025 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mose Allison I Don’t Worry About A Thing Jazz | Modern Harmonic | 1LP Coloured Vinyl Released 18th March 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mose Allison I Don’t Worry About A Thing £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Modern Harmonic Released Date: 18th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ahmad Jamal Marseille Jazz | Jazz Village | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 19th December 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ahmad Jamal Marseille £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Jazz Village SKU: JV3357014243 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Helge Lien Trio Badgers And Other Beings Jazz | Ozella Music | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 14th April 2014 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Helge Lien Trio Badgers And Other Beings £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Ozella Music SKU: OZ1055LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 14th April 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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