Song For


Song For is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman, recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label.

Background

Jarman's regular quintet with saxophonist Fred Anderson, trumpeter Billy Brimfield, bassist Charles Clark and drummer Thurman Barker was augmented for the record by another drummer, Steve McCall, and a new figure, pianist Christopher Gaddy, who had just returned from army service. Gaddy died on March 12, 1968, less than a month before his twenty-fifth birthday. Song For was his only recorded performance. Before joining Jarman, Anderson and Brimfield co-led a quartet which was one of the seminal AACM group.

Music

"Adam's Rib" is a Brimfield tune, while "Little Fox Run"" is an Anderson composition. “Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City” is a work combining music with an extended poem by Jarman himself.

Reception

Scott Yanow, in his review for AllMusic claims "this music was the next step in jazz after the high-energy passions of the earlier wave of the avant-garde started to run out of fresh ideas".
The Penguin Guide to Jazz states about the album "Of great documentary and historical significance, though unlikely to effect any dramatic conversions."

Track listing

  1. "Little Fox Run" - 7:05
  2. "Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City" - 14:06
  3. "Adam's Rib" - 5:57
  4. "Song For" - 13:39
Bonus track on CD
  2. "Little Fox Run " - 10:50

    Personnel