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    David Murray Quartet Ballads For Bass Clarinet

    Koko
    • David Murray Quartet – Waltz To Heaven
    • David Murray Quartet – New Life
    • David Murray Quartet – Chazz
    • David Murray Quartet – Portrait Of A Black Woman
    • David Murray Quartet – Lyons Street
    • David Murray Quartet – Elegy For Fannie Lou
    • 1. Waltz To Heaven
    • 2. New Life
    • 3. Chazz
    • 4. Portrait Of A Black Woman
    • 5. Lyons Street
    • 6. Elegy For Fannie Lou

    Another first-time-on-vinyl release from Koko, Ballads For Bass Clarinet (previously a Japan-only CD) comprises a couple of waltzes, a blues, a Monk-ish suite-like piece, a free-ish drums and clarinet interlude, and finally an elegy to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

    David Murray leads on bass clarinet, managing to go both deep and soaringly high; it sometimes sounds like two different instruments are being played. Backed by John Hicks (piano), Ray Drummond (bass) and Idris Muhammad (drums), Murray’s quartet is tight and the recording superb, with a warm and intimate sound.

    Highly recommended!

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