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RE: The funny and interesting thing about Murray is that he's remained...

Posted by belyin on September 18, 2020 at 16:41:53:
Murray was so prolific his catalog is a bit hit or miss. My favorite of his recordings might even be his first "Flowers for Albert" on India Navigation as well as his octet recordings, and I love his bass clarinet work. Now that I think about his, he is the one "major" figure I have heard the most in person: the Octet in 1983 to the Ornette Coleman Prime Time reunions at Lincoln Center in in 2017, and along the way with The World Saxophone Quartet with African drums, the Gwo Kwa Masters, the quartet with John Hicks, Ray Drummond, and Andrew Cyrille, his recent Class Struggle quartet, a tribute to Julius Hemphill in a duet with Dave Burrell, various ensembles with Kidd Jordan, the amazing Ornette Coleman tribute in Prospect Park, and even a quartet set with New Orleans' stalwart (and Wynton associate) Herlin Riley. In person he has never been less than good, and has most often been stellar--and he always sounds like David Murray in an era when too many just sound like "jazz."

Unfortunately I only heard Arthur Blythe once--at the Chicago Jazz Festival in a tribute to Chico Hamilton w/Larry Coryell--so I never got to hear him play his music. "Lennox Avenue Breakdown" is a masterpiece, but the mastering engineer for the Columbia recordings must have been deaf--they are almost unlistenable with their piercing treble. I know they have been remastered in recent cd re-releases but I don't know if they have been improved.