Drum/sax duets - all time faves
Fabio Rojas
duets. I've recently discovered the Dewey Redman/Ed Blackwell
duets and they are great.
-fabio
Monk5by5
Murray-Graves: Real Deal
Eskelin-Bennink: Dissonant Characters
all 5 star records
Steve Berman
I know the following:
Anthony Braxton/Gino Robair, Duets 1987
John Coltrane (+ Rashied Ali), Interstellar Space
Urs Leimgruber/Fritz Hauser, L'Enigmatique
Urs Leimgruber/Fritz Hauser, Duho
Evan Parker/Paul Lytton, Three Other Stories
Evan Parker/Paul Lytton, Two Octobers
Evan Parker/John Stevens, Corner To Corner
Dudu Pukwana/John Stevens, Mbizo Radebe
Max Roach/Anthony Braxton, Birth and Rebirth
Max Roach/Anthony Braxton, One In Two - Two In One
All of these are worth hearing, but "Interstellar Space", "Birth and
Rebirth", and at least one of the Evan Parker duos are musts IMO. "One
In Two - Two In One" is also very good, though much more discursive
than "Birth and Rebirth" (not necessarily a bad thing); both are
highly improvisational. The Braxton/Robair record is also very good,
much more compositional and introspective than the duos with Roach.
The Parker/Lytton duos are from the early 70s and very different from
the Parker/Stevens one, which is from 1993 (they also made a record in
1976, which I haven't heard); the former are quite experimental and
sometimes very wild and loose, the latter is overall more restrained
and intimate, though also with some looser and wilder moments. The
Pukwana/Stevens duo is quite freewheeling, but also sometimes quite
lyrical, if memory serves. The Leimgruber/Hauser duos are often very
intense, but also introspective and deliberate; I think I prefer
"Duho", which has longer pieces and comes closer to how they sounded
when I heard them in concert, which was overwhelming.
--Steve Berman
Dan Given
>
> Any opinions on favorite (or disappointing) sax/drum
> duets. I've recently discovered the Dewey Redman/Ed Blackwell
> duets and they are great.
>
Some of my favorites:
Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille -- there's a couple of records, all worth
checking out.
Eddie Prevost and Evan Parker -- Most Materiall (Matchless). Incredible
music. Not of the same style as Redman/Blackwell or Lyons/Cyrille, but
one of my favorite albums of the last few years.
Frode Gjerstad and John Stevens -- Sunshine (Impetus). Was supposed to
be a Detail session, but Dyani was too sick. Great stuff. Frode is
finally, now, getting some recognition on his own. He's currently doing
a small tour of North America with Wm Parker and Hamid Drake. Go see
them.
Steve McCall and Fred Anderson -- Vintage Duets (Okka) what can I say,
its Steve McCall, so it has to be good!
Dan
Joseph Benzola
Max Roach/Anthony Braxton
Jackie McLean/Michael Carvin
Fred Anderson/Steve McCall
John Coltrane/Rashied Ali
Max Roach/Archie Shepp
David Murray/Milford Graves
Dewey Redman/Ed Blackwell
Jimmy Lyons/Andrew Cyrille
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Joseph Benzola
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Todd Bishop
wrote:
>Any opinions on favorite (or disappointing) sax/drum
>duets. I've recently discovered the Dewey Redman/Ed Blackwell
>duets and they are great.
>
>-fabio
There's a screaming record just out by a couple of great Seattle
musicians, saxophonist Rick Mandyke and drummer Greg Keplinger. This
is the last record Rick made before a botched charity ward hernia
operation ended his career as a horn player. There should be RealAudio
samples and ordering information on the Originarts website (see the
URL below), if anyone would like to check it out.
Todd Bishop
http://www.originarts.com (Flatland)
willieace
recording by anthony braxton with a percussionist with, i believe, a middle
eastern name.
kpkovac
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Dan Given
>
> it may have already been mentioned, but i seem to recall a wonderful duet
> recording by anthony braxton with a percussionist with, i believe, a middle
> eastern name.
>
Pretty good album, but not what I would call essential Braxton.
Dan
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i listened to this yesterday, and agree that there are far better
braxton albums. i was throwing it into the drum/sax duet pool, though,
and in that context, it's different than man of the others and
interesing as well
kpkovac
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Marc Neville
Abbey Rader / Keshavan Maslak - "Suburban Utopic" - Abray 521
Abbey Rader / Dave Liebman - "Inner Voices" - Abray 531
Damon Short / Paul Scea - "Balance of Power" - Southport 68
Paul Dunmall / Tony Levin - "Essential Expressions" - Cadence Jazz Records
1079
Frode Gjerstad / Steve Hubback - "Demystify" - FMR
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