Virtuosi_(album)

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Virtuosi (album)

1976 studio album by Barry Altschul, Paul Bley & Gary Peacock

Virtuosi is an album by drummer Barry Altschul, pianist Paul Bley and bassist Gary Peacock recorded in 1967 and released on Bley's own Improvising Artists label in 1976.[1]

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The editors of AllMusic awarded the album 2½ stars, and reviewer Eugene Chadbourne suggested that listeners could find the music "either endlessly fascinating if the time is there to focus on every detail, or a kind of irrelevant background patter whose components could be reordered endlessly without any change in meaning."[2]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings noted that the album "sounds... very much like Bley's own trio work of the period," and stated: "Bley... tends to dominate proceedings, though Altschul's continuous flow of ideas would be impressive were it registered more distinctly; not even CD gives a faithful rendition of some of his softer figures and effects."[4]

Writing for MusicHound Jazz, Steve Holtje commented: "to hear this trio's kaleidoscopic deployment of its considerable yet restrained resources is to witness improvisational interaction at the highest level."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Butterflies" (Annette Peacock) - 15:54
  2. "Gary" (Peacock) - 17:10

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    Paul Bley catalog, accessed June 20, 2014
  2. [2]
    Chadbourne, Eugene. "Barry Altschul: Virtuosi". AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
  3. [3]
    Holtje, Steve; Lee, Nancy Ann (1998). MusicHound: The Essential Album Guide. Schirmer. p. 32.
  4. [4]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1998). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Compact Disc. Penguin Books. p. 35.
  5. [5]
    Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 27. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. [6]
    Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 97.
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