Phillips, Barre / End To End
Album: End To End   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Phillips, Barre   Added:Sep 2018
Label:Ecm Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2018-09-23 Pull Date: 2018-11-25 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Oct 14 Sep 30
Airplays: 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 01, 2018: Music Casserole
Outer Window, Part 2
3. Sep 29, 2018: Music Casserole
Quest, Part 2
2. Oct 11, 2018: No Cover, No Minimum
Quest, Part 3
4. Sep 28, 2018: Old Fart at Play
Outer Window, Part 2

Album Review
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2018-09-16
Reviewed: 2018-09-16
Genre: Jazz
FCCs: none
Review: Barre Phillips was the first musician to record an album of solo double bass, back in 1968, and he has always been an absolute master of the solo idiom, plus he has collaborated with many other musicians over the years. He says this release will be his last solo album, the final chapter of his "Journal Violone": it is a beautiful and moving musical statement. All the qualities we associate with Barre's playing are here in abundance: questing adventurousness, melodic invention, textural richness, developmental logic, and deep soulfulness.
If You Like: Arild Andersen, Bjorn Meyer, Dave Holland, Eberhard Weber, Hannah Adario-Berry,
William Parker
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
1/ Quest, Part 1 (2;38) – slow & plodding
*2/ Quest, Part 2 (2:21) – bowed bass spacey
*3/ Quest, Part 3 (3:15) – slow start builds to midtempo with shifting tempo & melody
**4/ Quest, Part 4 (4:33) - heavy chords start hesitatingly> swings uptempo
5/ Quest, Part 5 (2:36) – slow bowed bass, cello-like> slow fade
6/ Inner Door, Part 1 (2:36) – slow & hesitant start> slow> quick stop
**7/ Inner Door, Part 2 (2:52) – slow bowed bass, cello-like, slides high & low> quick fade
*8/ Inner Door, Part 3 (2:21) - slow bowed bass, cello-like in the upper registers> sudden stop
*9/ Inner Door, Part 4 (5:49) – midtempo flurry of notes> rocking uptempo solo> fade
10/ Outer Window, Part 1 (2:19) - slow bowed bass, cello-like in the upper registers> fade
**11/ Outer Window, Part 2 (6:13) – uptempo percussive start slows to rumble, then builds to uptempo with percussive effects & back to rumble & back again to uptempo> fade
*12/ Outer Window, Part 3 (2:44) – slow bowed bass, cello-like> fade
13/ Outer Window, Part 4 (3:35) – heavy chords start> slow & plodding> shifts into higher registers at same pace, then back to the low notes, then back again till stop

Track Listing
1. Quest, Part 1   7. Inner Door, Part 2
2. Quest, Part 2   8. Inner Door, Part 3
3. Quest, Part 3   9. Inner Door, Part 4
4. Quest, Part 4   10. Outer Window, Part 1
5. Quest, Part 5   11. Outer Window, Part 2
6. Inner Door, Part 1   12. Outer Window, Part 3
  13. Outer Window, Part 4