Dark Day / Live In Verona (1977)

Fred Anderson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 31, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: ATAVISTIC
• ASIN: B00005NNEQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #445,536 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Dark Day

2. Saxoon

3. Three On Two

4. The Prayer

Disc: 2

1. The Bull

2. Three On Two

3. Dark Day

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Early Fred, Early Hamid Drake, November 5, 2004

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Jason Gubbels (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Day / Live In Verona (1977) (Audio CD)

This cd is actually two concerts in one package. The first disc re-releases an old hard to find (make that impossible to find) LP recorded in Chicago. The second cd is a previously unreleased concert recorded just a few days later in Italy (and with much better sound, too.) Over the course of a few long renditions, Fred Anderson honks and blows in a very unique style that's nevertheless hard to instantly recognize. In length and structure, these performances resemble the avant-garde, but Fred stays away from extreme noise and screams. Just as fascinating is the drumming of the great Hamid Drake, here going by the name of Hank Drake. He's awfully young, but already putting together his signature sound of absolute precision, the funk, and African rhythms. The sound is a bit diffident, the arrangements are pretty sloppy (and pretty unmemorable thematically, too) and the bass player is either one of the worst in the world or just the victim of a really poor microphone set-up. But these are not disqualifiers. It's an intense, revealing set.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to Fred Anderson, November 18, 2001

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"lianas" (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Day / Live In Verona (1977) (Audio CD)

This double CD set is a fine way to meet the smoothness and calm of Fred Anderson's evolved free jazz playing style. I don't know exactly what it is about Verona, Italy but it gestates great things. Enjoy.