View basket “Jimmy Smith’s Greatest Hits” 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 Jacob Collier Djesse Vol. 1 Jazz | Decca | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th September 2023 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jacob Collier Djesse Vol. 1 £30.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca SKU: 5552715 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lee Morgan The Sidewinder Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 4th December 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lee Morgan The Sidewinder £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 743886 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th December 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jackie McLean Tippin’ The Scales Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 1st April 2022 £33.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jackie McLean Tippin’ The Scales £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 3551975 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 1st April 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Lonnie Smith Turning Point Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 22nd December 2009 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lonnie Smith Turning Point £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: BLP4313 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd December 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jimmy Smith & Stanley Turrentine Prayer Meetin’ (1963) Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 25th September 2020 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jimmy Smith & Stanley Turrentine Prayer Meetin’ (1963) £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 881132 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 25th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Milt Jackson Milt Jackson and The Thelonious Monk Quartet Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 18th March 2022 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Milt Jackson Milt Jackson and The Thelonious Monk Quartet £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 4508227 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th March 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Michael Franks The Art Of Tea Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 24th September 2021 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Franks The Art Of Tea £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: MS 2230 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 24th September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Hicks Steadfast Jazz | Strata East | 180g, 1LP Released 12th November 2021 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Hicks Steadfast £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Strata East SKU: SES 9008 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kenny Dorham Una Mas Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 13th September 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kenny Dorham Una Mas £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 7764740 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jazz at the Philharmonic Adderley/Getz/Dizzy/JJ Johnson Jazz | Speakers Corner | 4LP Released 12th November 2009 £86.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jazz at the Philharmonic Adderley/Getz/Dizzy/JJ Johnson £86.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: VERVE853942 Formats: 4LP Released Date: 12th November 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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