View basket “Free Spirits” 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 Mal Waldron Sextet Mal/2 Jazz | Concord Craft Recordings (OJC Series) | 180g, 1LP Released 28th July 2023 £43.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mal Waldron Sextet Mal/2 £43.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord Craft Recordings (OJC Series) SKU: ACONC 616 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th July 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Stanley Turrentine Up At Minton’s Volume 1 Jazz | Analogue Productions | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released 1st March 2013 £52.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stanley Turrentine Up At Minton’s Volume 1 £52.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: ABNJ84069 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 1st March 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Adam Baldych & Leszek Mozdzer Passacaglia Jazz | ACT | 2LP Released 9th February 2024 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adam Baldych & Leszek Mozdzer Passacaglia £29.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACTLP9057-7 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 9th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sidney Bechet Souvenirs Jazz | Vogue | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th November 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sidney Bechet Souvenirs £16.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Vogue SKU: 88985448221 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Messthetics and James Brandon, The The Messthetics and James Brandon Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Verve | 1LP Released 15th March 2024 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Messthetics and James Brandon, The The Messthetics and James Brandon £26.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Verve SKU: 5894589 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Oded Tzur My Prophet Jazz | ECM | 1LP Released 7th June 2024 £22.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Oded Tzur My Prophet £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 6516314 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th June 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View OZO Saturn Jazz | Riot Season | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th February 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders OZO Saturn £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Riot Season SKU: REPOSELP090 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cassandra Wilson Blue Light ‘Til Dawn Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 2LP Released 6th October 2011 £47.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Cassandra Wilson Blue Light ‘Til Dawn £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPANBST81357 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 6th October 2011 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Charles Mingus East Coasting (2014 – Remaster) Jazz | BMG USA - Bethlehem Records | 180g, 1LP Released 13th January 2023 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Charles Mingus East Coasting (2014 – Remaster) £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: BMG USA - Bethlehem Records SKU: 4050538816150 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 13th January 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket On Sale View Product Quick View Sarah Vaughan Lullaby of Birdland Jazz | BMG Records | 1LP Released 19th October 2018 £9.99 £13.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Sarah Vaughan Lullaby of Birdland £9.99 £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: BMG Records SKU: 4050538423389 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th October 2018 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Jazz Start again
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