Label:
Altsax – AMC 1000
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: US / Released: 1973
Style:
Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
Recorded
in Hilversum, Holland, October 1971.
Design
at Photography – Chas. Baum and Daphne Warburg
Mastered
At – Sadler Recording Service
Lacquer
Cut At – Bell Sound Studios
Matrix
/ Runout (Side A, hand-etched): AMC⋅1000⋅A
Bre 6 - 4 - 73
Matrix
/ Runout (Side B, hand-etched): AMC.1000⋅B Bre 6 - 4 - 73
A - Patterns ..........................................................................................
18:41
B
- Patterns (continued)
....................................................................... 18:45
Composition
by Noah Howard
Noah
Howard – alto saxophone, bells, tambourine, timpani
Misha Mengelberg – piano
Earl
Freeman – bass
Jaap
Schoonhoven – electric guitar
Steve
Boston – congas
Han
Bennink – percussion
A
nice obscure one from Noah Howard, recorded in Holland during his time in
Europe, and featuring a great lineup that includes Misha Mengelberg and Han
Bennink. The album is one long track – "Patterns" – in which Howard
solos in a fairly free, post-Coltrane kind of way, although the other players
retain more of their own styles. (Dusty
Groove, Inc.)
Originally
issued on his own AltSax label in 1971, the "Patterns" session is one
of the great mystery spots in the Noah Howard canon... The blasted opening
sequence, which we seem to enter whilst already in-process, is a space duet for
conga & electric guitar unprecedented in the annals of jazz & new
music. When the rest of the musicians enter there is a heavy attempt to
africanize Dutch architecture, a proposition which Mr. Mengelberg seems
reluctant to accept. What eventually occurs is a primitivist aerial slugfest
that invokes a world of shared experience, then negates its substantiality with
hammers of nihilist beauty. Emblematic of the end of Europe's open arms policy
towards America's expatriate improvisers, "Patterns" remains a nobly
ferocious, confounding ghost.
_Review
by Byron Coley
If
you find it, buy this album!
NOAH HOWARD – Patterns (Altsax – AMC 1000 / LP-1973)
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ReplyDeleteThank you for the very interesting and unique share. "Patterns" is a good title for this since Howard patiently lets them unfold.I like the way the congas,piano,guitar,bass and drums join in and fade away at will. Mysterious guitar.
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