View basket “Great Women of Song: Ella Fitzgerald” 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 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers The Witch Doctor Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th June 2021 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers The Witch Doctor £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 3514860 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Danish String Quartet Last Leaf Jazz | ECM New Series | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 15th June 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Danish String Quartet Last Leaf £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM New Series SKU: 4816497 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 15th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Ronnie Foster Two Headed Freap (Scorpio Pressing) Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 26th October 2022 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ronnie Foster Two Headed Freap (Scorpio Pressing) £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: nn252247 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th October 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Kenny Dorham Trompeta Toccata Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 31st October 2009 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kenny Dorham Trompeta Toccata £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: BN4181 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st October 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Artie Shaw Both Feet In The Groove Jazz | Doxy | 180g, 1LP Released 30th January 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Artie Shaw Both Feet In The Groove £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Doxy SKU: DOX857LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gene Russell Talk To My Lady Jazz | Real Gone Music | 1LP Released 5th March 2021 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gene Russell Talk To My Lady £23.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Real Gone Music SKU: RLGM11861PMI Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love (Deluxe Edition) Jazz | Concord | 3LP Released 10th September 2021 £50.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love (Deluxe Edition) £50.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord SKU: 7215562 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 10th September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blossom Dearie Blossom Dearie (Verve By Request Series) Jazz | Verve | 180g, 1LP Released 9th June 2023 £39.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blossom Dearie Blossom Dearie (Verve By Request Series) £39.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 4899710 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 9th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Donald Byrd Byrd In Flight Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 8th January 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Donald Byrd Byrd In Flight £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 893500 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 8th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mary Lou Williams Trio Free Spirits Jazz | Steeplechase | 180g, 1LP Released 5th August 2022 £29.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mary Lou Williams Trio Free Spirits £29.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Steeplechase SKU: G1043 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th August 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Jazz Start again
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