Format Details: 3CD set
Release Date: 02 June 2023
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 5051078002620
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
3xCD set (for the price of 2xCD) of Anthropology Band live in 2022 at the Newcastle Festival Of Jazz And Improvised Music and at Café Oto, London.
The band's current 8 piece line up was on fiery form for both gigs, playing a mixture of both old and new material to full houses. With the electric 70s music of Miles Davis as it's starting point and the improvised abstraction of AACM as its end point, these recording show a band growing out of the studio and going from strength to strength as it hits the stage.
"An outstanding collection of improvisers with a programme that is inspired by, but definitely not copies from, electric Miles. It's how Miles might have sounded if his collaboration with Jimi Hendrix and Gil Evans had come about. Keeffe is a real find, and when Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas started feeding off each other, the audience erupted." - Peter Slavid, review of Liverpool International Jazz Festival gig.
Martin Archer: tenor saxophone, saxello, melodica, electronics.
Charlotte Keeffe: trumpet and flugelhorn.
Pat Thomas: piano, keyboards, electronics.
Orphy Robinson: xylosynth.
Chris Sharkey: guitar, electronics.
Anton Hunter: guitar, electronics.
Dave Sturt: bass guitar, electronics.
Adam Fairclough: drums
Tracklisting
Army Of Briars
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall
Theo May's Odd Unit
Charlotte Keeffe
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
The Exu
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
