David MURRAY Quartet - A Sanctuary Within 1991

David MURRAY Quartet - A Sanctuary Within  1991

Jazz

David Murray in some really wonderful company here -- playing both tenor and bass clarinet on a highly percussive date that features work from Sunny Murray and Kahil El'Zabar! Murray handles straight drums, and Kahil works with a host of percussion -- very much in the same soulful spirit as the work he did with David Murray on the duo's album for Sound Aspects, but with a bit more force here, thanks to Sunny's drumming. The quartet's completed by bassist Tony Overwater, who's round tones are especially welcome on some of the gentler tracks -- giving them a nice sense of pulse -- and titles include "Waltz To Heaven", "Most Of All", "Song For A New South Africa", "Ballad For The Blackman", "Return Of The Lost Tribe", "A Sanctuary Within (parts 1 & 2)", and "Short & Sweet".
Dusty Groove America, Inc.
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During the late fifties and early sixties, a very unusual phenomena occured in the popular field of Jazz music: the rise of some of the most extreme and abstract expression in just about any field of artistic discipline. This would be the emergence of what would come to be called 'Free - Jazz'. Not only is this genre of music some of the most complicated and confusing music ever created, but it is confounded by the fact that its emergence occured in a field and enviroment where its origin was actually in modern popular culture. Before the advent of Rock and Roll, modern Jazz, what today we refer to as the swing era, constituted the most popular form of musical expression for the record buying public. After World War II, strange musical innovations were occuring in some of the nightclubs in places like Harlem; where geniuses like Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Charles Mingus,and Bud Powell were changing this popular music and refining it into high and complicated art form. Bored and frustrated with conventional musical forms, resentful of the racist assimilation and commercialization of an art form which was basically Afro American in origin, these artist invented a genre out of the basic swing structure of jazz which convulated basic musical designs; dazzling harmonic complexity, time signatures accelerated multifold, unconventional and unorthidox chord structure, basic swing themes altered unrecognizable by overwhelming structural complication and improvisation. Bebop was born. In time, however as these innovations were explored thoroughly, even they became standardized and integrated into accepted musical architecture, they evolved into post - bebop sub catagories: hard bop, cool jazz, modal jazz, and finally and most inaccessably, free - jazz. Completely radical, defying most musical terms of comprehension, free jazz ultimately dissavowed the use of any conventional musical structures. Harmony, melody, and time were all ultimately removed from this form of music. Violently and passionately opposed by most audiences as talentless non music; and just as passionately recieved by those who saw it as the highest possble and most passionate form of musical expression; Free - Jazz today, over forty years later, continues to confound many and enthrall a select few who percieve in its torturous and sometimes joyous release some of the greatest approximation of spiritual expression.
By Warren W. Nelson.
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David Murray- Tenor saxophone, Bass clarinet
Tony Overwater- Bass
Sunny Murray- Drums
Kahil El' Zabar- Percussion (ashiko drum, earth drum), Sanza (afrikan thumbpiano), Voice
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01. Short And Sweet 6:37
02. Mountain Song 6:21
03. Return To The Lost Tribe 10:16
04. Waltz To Heaven 5:33
05. A Sanctuary Within – Part I (Duo) 6:08
06. A Sanctuary Within – Part II (Quartet) 9:00
07. Most Of All 8:54
08. Song For New South Africa 7:13
09. Ballad For The Blackman 10:40
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