Four Compositions

Some crazy free jazz with a quintet, followed by more serious free improv with a quartet -- all based on compositions by bassist Fell. Don't let the "Composition#" titles scare you. Yes, these have an academic sound -- even in the fast, rolling free-jazz phases -- but in a less severe way than, say, Anthony Braxton's recent work.

DISK ONE

1- Sparse, quiet, with big piano crashes at first
2*- Jazzy avant-bebop amid sparse avant doodlings. Ends quiet and spare
3*- Fast rollicking jazz. Breaks down for a quiet pause at about -14:00 but revs up again. Last 5 minutes are quiet.

DISK TWO -- Focuses more on abstract free improv. (It's one composition in 7 movements.)

1- Gentle abstract burble, screechy in places
2- Fast clutter, into lonely ghostly noises
3*- Fast, with some athletic bass & quirky composed lines
4- Quiet
5- Thundering drums; quiet sqeaks and squawks
6*- Perky, quirky chamber-jazz lines, fairly fast. Slow ending
7- Mostly slow and sparse. Very quiet start.