Label:
Gramavision – 18-8407-1
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: US / Released: 1986
Style:
Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, Avant-garde Jazz
Recorded at Mad
Hatter Studios, Hollywood, California, January 1985.
Design
– Neal Pozner
Engineer
– Bernie Kirsch
Produced
By – James Newton
Cover
Art: St. Prosper – by Catharine Warren courtesy of the LIGHT Gallery
A1
- Star Crossed Lovers . . . 3:33
A2
- Lone Hill . . . 10:41
A3
- The Crips . . . 7:58
B1
- Water Mystery . . . 8:56
B2
- One For Strayhorn . . . 5:18
B3
- Dance Steps . . . 5:24
James
Newton - flute
Charles
Owens - English horn, soprano sax
John
Carter – clarinet
April
Aoki – harp
Allan
Iwohara - koto
Red
Callender - tuba
Greg
Martin - oboe
John
Nunez - bassoon
Roberto
Miranda - bass
Anthony Brown –
percussion
The five musicians of James Newton's wind ensemble featured on The Mystery School in 1982 (flutist Newton, bassoonist John Nunez, Charles Owens on English horn and soprano, clarinetist John Carter and Red Callender on tuba) are joined by oboist Greg Martin, bassist Roberto Miranda, percussionist Anthony Brown, April Aoki on harp and Allan Iwohara on koto for a rather colorful set. There are two tributes to Billy Strayhorn (including a version of "Star Crossed Lovers"), one for George Russell, a remake of "The Crips" and a pair of features for the koto. A very interesting program of adventurous yet quite logical explorations.
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Review by Scott Yanow
If
you find it, buy this album!
JAMES NEWTON - Water Mystery (LP-1985)
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FLAC:
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One of the many albums by Newton that never saw an official digital release, AFAIK. Thank you, Vitko!
ReplyDeleteThanks for making this available, Vitko - like -Otto- said, without the labour of love of ripping such old vinyl records, the music would be simply lost! Many Gramavision LP's never found their way to CD's - and even the CD's are long out of print and hard to find. Posted one myself recently:
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Cheers,
Lucky
Thanx! Gramavision - can't get enough of those
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, Vitko! Never hear this Newton's album...
ReplyDeleteHey Vitko! Ditto to Lucky's comments on this rare gem! Very nice thanks for the listen.
ReplyDeletevery good. i searched for this for a long time. thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you. One year after posting this gem, I found that!
ReplyDeletePlease re up. Thank you
ReplyDeleteAny chance of a re-up? Thanks.....I see there was a previous request but no reply......would be nice to hear this one!
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DeletePlease dont keep us waiting too long! You can always contact me and send me a file....hint hint...
ReplyDeleteI would also be very interested and thankful for a re-up. I'm looking for a digital version of "The Mystery School" too, cause I don't have a vinyl-player and there seems to be no CD-version as well.
ReplyDeleteJames Newton - Portraits (1982), with Cecil McBee and Philip Wison, would be wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI agree, it would be great, maybe one day ...
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