REVISITED EXISTS TO ENABLE IMPORTANT RECORDINGS TO BE HEARD ANEW FOLLOWING STATE-OF-THE-ART SOUND RESTORATION.
Brown was already defying categorisation in 1966 when he recorded Three For Shepp, whose six tracks open Three For Shepp To Gespächsfetzen Revisited. Brown’s opening “New Blues” and Shepp’s closing “Delicado,” though compelling, are relatively orthodox expressions of mid 1960s New Thing. The four tracks they bookend, however, are distinctive even today. Brown’s exquisite “Fortunato,” though it sounds like nothing Pharoah Sanders ever wrote, inhabits similarly pretty terrain as Sanders’ astral-jazz manifesto Tauhid’s “Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt” and “Japan.” Of the Shepp tunes, “West India,” with its Caribbean flourishes and calypsonian alto solo, is a first taste of what would become an ongoing strand in Brown’s music. Chris May
Three For Shepp (Tracks 1-6)
Marion Brown alto saxophone
Grachan Moncur III trombone
Dave Burrell piano (1–3)
Stanley Cowell piano (4–6)
Norris Jones (Sirone) double bass
Bobby Capp drums (1–3)
Beaver Harris drums (4–6)
Recorded December 1, 1066 at Van Gelder Studio.
Gesprächsfetzen (Tracks 7-11)
Marion Brown alto saxophone
Ambrose Jackson trumpet
Gunter Hampel vibraphone & bass clarinet
Buschi Niedergall double bass
Steve McCall drums
By Marion Brown (Tracks 7, 8 & 11)
Recorded live at Modernes Theater München,
Munich, Germany, September 20, 1968.
