Tuesday, February 21, 2017

NOAH HOWARD – Patterns (Altsax Rec. – AMC 1000 / LP-1973)




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



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11 comments:

  1. VitkoFebruary 21, 2017 at 5:27 PM

    NOAH HOWARD – Patterns (Altsax – AMC 1000 / LP-1973)
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  2. VanderbrötzFebruary 21, 2017 at 7:08 PM

    Thank you Vitko for your lovingly made page.

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  3. VitkoFebruary 21, 2017 at 7:29 PM

    Thanks and welcome!

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  4. jeffFebruary 21, 2017 at 10:38 PM

    Thanks Vitko. Never heard this one w/ the dutch masters. Should be very interesting

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  5. francisco santosFebruary 21, 2017 at 11:41 PM

    BIG THX!...

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  6. ChrisFebruary 25, 2017 at 8:29 AM

    thanks vitko for the fresh rip, great player and free jazz lp

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  7. -Otto-February 25, 2017 at 9:30 PM

    Thank you, Vitko. I'd like to echo jeff's remarks. And, it seems 1f has revised its DL policy and has restrained pop-ups and has also increased reliability of continuing downloads. Glad they did some fixin'.

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    1. VitkoFebruary 25, 2017 at 10:27 PM

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  8. BhowaniMarch 12, 2017 at 5:22 PM

    Another treasure ! Thank you, Vitko !

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  9. unitstructureMarch 15, 2017 at 12:56 PM

    Thank 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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  10. NicoFebruary 19, 2020 at 3:34 PM

    Great music, thanks!

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