View basket “Two Headed Freap (Scorpio Pressing)” 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 Julie London London By Night Jazz | Pan Am Records | 180g, 1LP Released 26th April 2010 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Julie London London By Night £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pan Am Records SKU: LP9152231 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 26th April 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ben's picks View Product Quick View Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda The Ecstatic Music Of Jazz | Luaka Bop | 180g, 2LP Released 26th May 2017 £31.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda The Ecstatic Music Of £31.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Luaka Bop SKU: LB87LP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 26th May 2017 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Julius Rodriguez Let Sound Tell All Jazz | Verve | 1LP Released 10th June 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Julius Rodriguez Let Sound Tell All £24.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 4525421 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Clifford Brown & Max Roach A Study In Brown Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 3rd August 2007 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Clifford Brown & Max Roach A Study In Brown £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: MG36037 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 3rd August 2007 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Slowly Rolling Camera Where the Streets Lead Jazz | Edition Records | 1LP Released 23rd July 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Slowly Rolling Camera Where the Streets Lead £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Edition Records SKU: EDNLP1176 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Coltrane Ballads (Acoustic Sounds Series) Jazz | Impulse | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 13th October 2020 £49.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Coltrane Ballads (Acoustic Sounds Series) £49.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impulse SKU: 888930 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 13th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson Jazz | Doxy | 180g, 1LP Released 21st February 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Doxy SKU: DOX885LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 21st February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 29th October 2013 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: LSP2533 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 29th October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Al Di Meola All Your Life: A Tribute To The Beatles Jazz | Inakustik | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released 16th September 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Al Di Meola All Your Life: A Tribute To The Beatles £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Inakustik SKU: 01691281 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 16th September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thelonious Monk Monk Jazz | Concord Jazz | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 29th December 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thelonious Monk Monk £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord Jazz SKU: 7236149 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th December 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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