Cascades (Marilyn Crispell album)
1995 live album by Marilyn Crispell
Cascades is an album by the American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell , the British double bass player Barry Guy and the drummer Gerry Hemingway , which was recorded live in 1993 during the Vancouver Jazz Festival and released on the Music & Arts label.[ 1] This was the first time that they worked together as a trio.[ 2]
Reception
In his review for AllMusic , Scott Yanow wrote, "Although there is a creative use of space, the lack of any real themes or lyrical moments makes this performance much less interesting than one would expect considering the musicians involved."[ 3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes about the trio that "the combination is sometimes too cluttered, though the bassist also understands better than the two Americans how to leave light and shade, space and air, in this music".[ 4]
Track listing
All titles are collective works
"Ricochet" – 15:40
"Violet Sparks in Soft Air" – 6:40
"Resonances" – 5:19
"Cascades" – 28:48
"Shadow Play" – 3:13
Personnel
References
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums
And Your Ivory Voice Sings (with Doug James, 1985)
Gaia (1987)
Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock (with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock , 1996)
Amaryllis (2000)
Storyteller (2003)
Vignettes (2007)
One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (with David Rothenberg , 2008)
Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton (with Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway , 2011)
Azure (with Gary Peacock, 2011)
In Motion (with Richard Poole and Gary Peacock, 2014)
Dreamstruck (with Harvey Sorgen and Joe Fonda , 2018)
Dream Libretto (with Tanya Kalmanovitch and Richard Teitelbaum , 2018)
Streams (with Yuma Uesaka, 2018 & 2019)
How to Turn the Moon (with Angelica Sanchez , 2019)
With Grace in Mind (with Joe Fonda and Harvey Sorgen, 2021)
Live albums
Spirit Music (1981 & 1982)
Live in Berlin (1982)
Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky (1983)
A Concert in Berlin (1983)
Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986 (1986)
Labyrinths (1987)
For Coltrane (1987)
Live in San Francisco (1989)
Duets Vancouver 1989 (with Anthony Braxton , 1989)
Live in Zurich (1989)
The Kitchen Concert (1989)
Duo (with Gerry Hemingway , 1989)
Circles (1990)
Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments (with Irène Schweizer , 1990)
Piano Duets (Tuned & Detuned Pianos) (with Georg Graewe, 1991)
Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour (1991 & 1992)
Hyperion (with Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake , 1992)
Inference (1992)
Santuerio (1993)
Cascades (1993)
Destiny (with Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake , 1994)
Band on the Wall (1994)
Spring Tour (1994)
Live at Yoshi's (1995)
Live at Mills College, 1995 (1995)
The Woodstock Concert (1995)
Dark Night, and Luminous (with Agustí Fernández, 1995)
Connecting Spirits (with Joseph Jarman , 1996)
Red (with Stefano Maltese, 1999)
Blue (with Stefano Maltese, 1999)
Complicité (with Paul Plimley , John Oswald , and Cecil Taylor , 2000)
Collaborations (2004 & 2007)
Sibanye (We Are One) (with Louis Moholo , 2007)
This Appearing World (with Richard Nunns and Jeff Henderson, 2008)
Affinities (with Gerry Hemingway , 2010)
ConcertOto (with Eddie Prévost and Harrison Smith, 2012)
Table of Changes (with Gerry Hemingway, 2013)
The Adornment of Time (with Tyshawn Sorey , 2018)